Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council members Carole Depoe Lankford and Joe Durglo had the ears of the nation’s highest federal officials last week and used the opportunity to talk about economic development, and interagency cooperation between the Flathead Reservatio...
Here they come, NBA and WNBA … 3 to 5-year-old all-stars are making their big boom. Itty Bitty Basketball is taking to the court with founder and coach Tina Begay leading the way. Begay started the program in 2005 in Arlee for the “littles” after watching the YMCA host a program of the ...
PABLO — According to the by-laws and constitution of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, a primary election run-off for Elmo District Tribal Council Candidates Reuben A. Mathias and Len Two Teeth will be held this Saturday, Nov. 16. Both Two Teeth and Mathias received ...
PABLO — The primary election for Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council was held Nov. 2 and the official results were posted Nov. 6. A recount for the Elmo district seat was completed and filed at 1 p.m. on Nov. 7. The two candidates from each district, or in Elmo’s case three c...
(Editor’s note: These candidates are the last to respond for the Tribal candidate story. Part one was published in the Oct. 23 edition. Election day for the Tribal Council primary is Saturday, Nov. 2) FLATHEAD RESERVATION — Tribal Council candidates running in the primary election explain why ...
Members from at least five of Montana’s eight Indian tribes, including two Salish and Kootenai tribal members, gathered in Havre on Oct. 2 and set up a statewide Native American organization to expose corruption on reservations. Tribal governments are “using a smokescreen of tribal sovereignty...
This year marks one of the largest pools of candidates for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council as 42 people have announced their candidacy. The primary election will take place Saturday, Nov. 2 from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. Polling places are the Arlee Indian Senior Center, the Elmo Community Cente...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes POLSON — One fish, two fish — 100 fish. Terry Krogstad of Kalispell turned in a total of 100 lake trout on Sunday, his first day of fishing the 2013 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes an...
ST. IGNATIUS — Three Flathead Joint Board of Control Commissioners — Boone Cole, Chair, Wayne Blevins and Jerry Laskody — gathered on Oct. 14 to talk to newspaper reporters about Resolution 2013 and what brought about the resolution. The FJBC, voting 6 to 5 with the chair abstainin...
PABLO — In 2009, John Carter, attorney for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, wrote that the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission was established by the 1979 Legislature “to negotiate rather than litigate the federal reserved and aboriginal water rights of Indian tribes and ...