Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
News from SKC There is a public scoping meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Polson Indian Senior Citizens Center, located at 701 1st Street East, next to Western Building Center, from 3 to 7 p.m. to discuss the formation of a program to implement annual herbicide treatments on flowering rush on th...
MONTANA — Through two top cabinet officials, the Trump administration has signaled its support for a proposed settlement of the reserved water right claims of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. First in a Nov. 18 letter from U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt to Montana S...
PABLO – United States Attorney General William Barr began his day with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes by stopping at a scenic overlook outside the National Bison Range Friday morning. While visiting with tribal staff and viewing a small herd through a field scope, Barr discu...
News from CSKT FLATHEAD LAKE – The 2019 Fall Mack Days fishing event concluded on Sunday, Nov. 10 with a total of 18,014 lake trout entries turned in by 157 anglers. It was the 18th fall event and the third highest in total since the event began in the fall of 2002. The 2002 event h...
A Pablo man is facing a five-year commitment to the Montana Department of Corrections for attempting to strangle his girlfriend. Christopher James Irvine, 45, entered a plea of guilty at District Court in Polson on Nov. 13 to strangulation of a partner or family member, which is a felony. On Jan....
News from U.S. Senator Jon Tester BIG SANDY — U.S. Senator Jon Tester is announcing nearly $8 million in Department of Justice grant funding for Montana Tribes, as part of his ongoing effort to provide resources to Indian Country to bolster tribal courts, support victims, and combat violence again...
EVARO – On a cloudy morning, nearly 100 people clustered in the grass alongside U.S. Highway 93 for a celebration. “Finally” was the word most often spoken. Seventy-four years after his death, the state legislature decided to name a two-mile stretch of highway after Louis Charlo, w...
In 2012, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes implemented a rule prohibiting non-tribal members from harvesting mushrooms and berries on the Flathead Indain Reservation. A tribal member may have non-member children and spouse (immediate family) accompany and assist with mushroom and berry picking, pro...
ARLEE – The 121st Arlee Esqapqeyni began with a Snake Dance on Thursday afternoon, and the celebration continued through the weekend with many more traditional dances. In a single file line, dancers wearing regalia moved together in the wave-like pattern of a snake into the pavilion. The dance...
News from CSKT The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council closed hunting of Rocky Mountain goats on the Flathead Indian Reservation in September of 2018 due to low population levels. Closed areas are located in both the Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness area and adjacent areas on the...
