Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
PABLO – Marvin Camel, the only world boxing champion from Montana, who won world titles in 1979 and 1980, is getting back something he likely thought was gone forever: his original championship belt. Ken Camel, Marvin’s brother, said the belt was stolen 30 years ago from the Marvin Camel...
News from the Missoula Writing Collaborative MONTANA — On January 15, 2020, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that the Missoula Writing Collaborative was the recipient of a $30,000 Art Works grant for 2020. The arts education grant will fund 24 of the 12-week poetry writing resid...
News from the Montana Department of Commerce MONTANA – The Montana Department of Commerce awarded a total of $712,500 through the Montana Indian Language Program to the eight tribal governments in Montana to support language revitalization efforts. The Montana Indian Language Program work...
When victims of domestic violence do not participate in the prosecution of their alleged perpetrator or make themselves available to prosecutors for various personal reasons, criminal charges get dismissed, which was the case for Christopher James Irvine, 45, of Pablo. He was facing up to 10 years i...
MONTANA – A bill that would settle a longstanding water rights dispute between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and state and federal governments would also return control of the National Bison Range to the tribes. While the exact language of the bill has not yet been made public, a...
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MONTANA — Chad Bauer, a member of Gov. Steve Bullock’s Grizzly Bear Citizen Advisory Council, expressed a sense of urgency and unease on the second morning of the council’s Dec. 4-5 meeting in Missoula. Bauer and Bullock sat across from each other in a crowded conference room on th...
News from the United States Department of Justice Attorney General William P. Barr launched a national strategy to address missing and murdered Native Americans. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative places MMIP coordinators in 11 U.S. Attorney’s offices who will develop pro...
News from SKC There is a public scoping meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Polson Indian Senior Citizens Center, located at 701 1st Street East, next to Western Building Center, from 3 to 7 p.m. to discuss the formation of a program to implement annual herbicide treatments on flowering rush on th...
MONTANA — Through two top cabinet officials, the Trump administration has signaled its support for a proposed settlement of the reserved water right claims of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. First in a Nov. 18 letter from U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt to Montana S...
PABLO – United States Attorney General William Barr began his day with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes by stopping at a scenic overlook outside the National Bison Range Friday morning. While visiting with tribal staff and viewing a small herd through a field scope, Barr discu...
