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News from Montana American Indian Caucus MONTANA — Members of the Montana Legislature’s American Indian Caucus expressed surprise and dismay that Gov. Greg Gianforte scrapped a historic bison management plan without notifying or consulting them, and apparently, without consulting Montana’s tribal nations. “We were blindsided by this administration’s decision,” said Representative Sharon Stewart-Peregoy, a Democrat from Crow Agency and chairwoman of the Montana Legislature’s American Indian Caucus. “To our surprise, we read about the governor’s decision in the newspaper. That’s not a government-to-government relationship. We...

News from the Department of the Interior WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today took several steps to honor our nation-to-nation relationship with Tribes and uphold our trust and treaty responsibilities to them. Today’s actions reverse a series of steps taken in the previous admin...