Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
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...
POLSON – A grassroots group consisting of more than 230 farmers and ranchers kicked off a media campaign in support of the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact last week, just as officials wrapped up negotiations of the document. Members of the freshly formed Farmers and Ran...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Joint Board of Control on Dec. 9 hired a lobbyist who will represent its interests in the upcoming legislative session, although board members declined to define exactly what those interests are. Helena-based attorney Abigail St. Lawrence has an extensive background...
With a little less than a month left until the state legislature convenes, state, federal, and tribal officials met in Missoula Dec. 1 to hammer out last minute details of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact. Officials said they were getting closer to agreeing on most elements of the ...
A state legislator is pushing for the federal government to answer questions about liens that have remained in place against properties using the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project, even though the project’s construction debt was paid off almost a decade ago. In a Dec. 1 negotiating session of...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes PABLO — In September, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Social Services Department received grant funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the amount of $736,000 each year for five years. Constanc...
PABLO — KSKC-TV, a public television station owned and operated by Salish Kootenai College, is scheduled to hold their on-air fundraiser Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 10 and 11, beginning at 6 p.m. each evening. Viewers can call in bids and people are welcome to come to the campus at SKC in Pablo to par...
News from Life for the Nations, Ronan PABLO — To celebrate the accomplishment of 40 days of Praise and Thanksgiving, more than 200 happy and hungry worshipers met in the Two Eagle River School Gymnasium for a sumptuous turkey dinner on Sunday, Nov. 23. The evening began with native Christians fro...
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...
RONAN – A re-evaluation of protected bull trout habitat, litigation, and ongoing negotiations of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact will have a significant impact on the operation of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project in the next year, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials said Nov. 19...
