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Editor,
As the newly elected Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Council representative for Polson District, it is my pleasure to express my deepest gratitude for this privilege and honor. I will join the positive forces of the districts representing our entire membership and work diligently on your behalf.
With over 1,400 persons in our workforce and decades of institutional knowledge in the sunset hours, we will be tasked with fitting the CSKT as efficiently as possible. Declining federal funds and commercial and market risks are pressuring decision makers to strategize operations with more depth and skill than ever before. At the same time, voters have called for a greater showing of integrity and unity while bringing more transparency.
On Jan. 5, 2018, an oath will be taken. The oath will be held alongside other promises that have kept me striving to live in the best way possible, not only for myself and my family, but for my God and His creation: the Salish, the Pend d’Oreille, and the Kootenai people.
Good leaders have a heart to increase a positive presence and take a place of prominence among the people who live here - prominence in honor, in faith, in vision, in comradery, in leading, in encouraging, and maybe most of all: prominence in shining brightly from where we are rooted.
Every fourth Wednesday of each month you can attend the Polson district meetings to help create a strong tribal community in Polson. We have military veterans, health and agricultural and commercial business sense, environmental stewardship, educators, teen and young adult leaders, loggers, and general “know how” residing in Polson district. Let’s emerge as a leading example of prominent tribal resource managers who embrace what we have and make brilliance happen. You are a necessary part of this tribal vision. If you want change, you will be a part of the change. Be in the game, not a spectator. We can do this as a team.
Again, thank you. See you at the Jan. 5 quarterly and again on Wednesday, Jan. 24 (location TBD.)
Charmel R. Gillin
Polson
