Articles with the Tag: Flathead Indian Reservation
News from CSKT FLATHEAD RESERVATION — The matriarch grizzly bear known as Griz-40 met her demise on a 14-mile stretch of highway associated with Post Creek and the Ninepipe wetland complex. She was struck by a vehicle on Friday, Sept. 4, when she was crossing the highway at 2 a.m. ...
News from CSKT PABLO — Two Eagle River School graduate Jayante Pichette jumped at the chance to continue the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ COVID Youth Community Care and Awareness Campaign, which is a series of culturally relevant COVID-19 awareness messages for the Flathead...
News from CSKT Division of Fire FLATHEAD RESERVATION – The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Division of Fire along with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes would like to thank the area volunteer fire departments for their response to the People’s Center fire last Sunday...
News from CSKT FLATHEAD RESERVATION – The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council declared that all recreation restrictions on the Flathead Indian Reservation were lifted on Sept. 8 for tribal lands within the reservation. Tribal conservation permits are required for individuals ...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – While the mountains have been intermittently cloaked in smoke, it hasn’t been an unusually busy local fire season. According to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ fire management specialist C.T. Camel, most of the smoke visible in the area is from f...
News from CSKT PABLO – The Chief Cliff Singers drum group has been around for many, many years and now joins the COVID-19 Youth Campaign. Their new song, “You Stay Way Over There, I’ll Stay Way Over Here,” speaks about social distancing. Alec Lefthand, of Dayton, was the...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – The local fire season is a bit late this year, but it managed to spark in late July amidst a global pandemic. “It was predicted that we would have an above normal fire season, but it’s late this year,” said C.T. Camel, Confederated Salish and Kootenai D...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – A Montana water rights bill that would end a years-long debate was passed by a congressional committee on July 29, the next step in ensuring irrigators and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes can avoid lengthy and costly adjudication of irrigation rights. Members...
Amid all the controversy surrounding Senator Steve Daine’s “Montana Water Right Protection Act,” two facts have become abundantly clear: there will be no disclosure to taxpayers and the public as to how the $1.9-billion-dollar figure attached to the act was arrived at nor, once the money is...
RONAN – This summer, families that don’t have the resources to purchase fresh produce will be able to access weekly boxes of food, grown in the region, through food banks and other community support organizations. Here’s how it works: farmers harvest food in fields across western Montana...
