Articles with the Tag: Flathead Indian Reservation
FLATHEAD RESERVATION — Fire officials on Tuesday presented a long-term fire plan to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council for management of the lightning-caused Seepay Fire which had grown to 1,050 acres. The plan anticipated the fire burning until a major weather event ends fire seaso...
Sunday, Aug. 17 update FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION — The lightning-caused Seepay Fire burning on the Flathead Indian Reservation 20 miles west of Dixon is currently at 1,050 acres, with hot spots primarily on the western flank. Humidity and rain throughout the past three days has s...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION — The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes implemented a rule prohibiting non-Tribal members from harvesting berries and mushrooms on March 1, 2012. A Tribal member may have non-member children and spouse acco...
FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION — Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Biologist Stacy Courville captured a 6-year old, 252-pound female grizzly and her two male cubs on the Flathead Indian Reservation on June 26. This was considered a preemptive capture in order to move the bears b...
The melted droplets flowing from snow-packed peaks have carved a course through western Montana that people have used to build civilization and economies for millennia. First, native people utilized the fish, mammals, and plants that drank from and lived in the flowing waters to sustain their popula...
PABLO — Collaboration and communication seemed to be common themes stressed by the participants at the Main Street Montana Project community meeting at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal council chambers on June 18. An example would be dual enrollment for high school students at Salish Kootena...
WESTERN MONTANA – The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes hosted a day-long informational session for state legislators in Helena last week about a proposed water compact that would impact much of western Montana. At the same time, irrigators of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project expresse...
News from Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Natural Resources Department POLSON — Wildlife Biologists with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes began a project to restore Trumpeter Swans as a resident species on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the mid-1990s. Subsequent efforts resul...
POLSON — Every year Cherry Valley Elementary School hosts a Night of the Arts. "This year we are celebrating Native American art and culture,” said kindergarten teacher Molly Billedeaux. “This year’s theme grew out of our work for Indian Education for All,” said Cherry Val...
LAKE COUNTY — Residents and government authorities say some parts of Lake County are literally going to the dogs because of a network of non-uniform, unenforceable and lax laws that span jurisdictional boundaries. While a string of animal control problems have intensified across the ...
