Articles with the Tag: CSKT

News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes POLSON — The Division of Fish, Wildlife, Recreation and Conservation developed an Animal Field Guide mobile app for elementary, middle, and high school students. The mobile app, entitled “Animal Field Guide – Flathead Reservation: Rip...

Shelly Fyant, Arlee Tribal Council, decided it was time to honor the local elders from all cultures, so she organized a brunch at the Community Center on Friday and invited several dozen elders and children from the Nkwusm language school. “I wanted to give back to my community,” Fyant said. &...

POLSON — Providence St. Joseph Medical Center will host a health insurance enrollment fair through Montana’s Health Insurance Marketplace on Saturday, Dec. 6, in the hospital lobby from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Although open enrollment began Saturday, Nov. 15, and runs through Feb. 15, 2015, those w...

PABLO — The camas plant and Salish Kootenai College forestry professor Robert Kenning’s work with camas restoration on the Flathead Reservation garnered Kenning an award. He was named one of four U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 Tribal ecoambassadors. The ecoambassadors are tr...

MISSOULA – Tribal officials said they will have to mull over changes proposed Oct. 27 by the State of Montana to a draft version of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact.  The tribal negotiating team’s initial reaction to the document was that state and tribal officials weren...

ARLEE – Meeting coordinator Gary Neumann explained to a crowd of people in the Arlee Community Center that the tribes want community input into the substance abuse problem on the reservation. They plan to use the information to help create an action plan to curb the problem.  The Confederated S...

RONAN – In honor of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act, approximately 40 second-grade students from Pablo Elementary School hiked on Sept. 3 to the edge of the Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness to learn how to safely appreciate and enjoy the great outdoors.  The hike to ...

News from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service LAKEWOOD, Colo. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended the public comment period for 14 days on the draft Environmental Assessment for a proposed Annual Funding Agreement that would allow the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to manage an...

MISSOULA – The Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission brought several narrowly tailored suggestions about how to protect the rights of Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators to a water compact negotiation session between the state, federal and Confederated Salish and Kootenai governmen...

POLSON — Rob McDonald, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal communications director, spoke on the State of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes at the Sept. 3 Polson Chamber of Commerce luncheon.  “Relations between the tribes and the larger community are the best they’ve ...