Articles with the Tag: Salish Kootenai College
Clarice Charlo King received the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Education 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award at the People’s Center on June 11. She congratulated the graduates in the audience, saying, “Your education is the one thing that no one can ever take away from you.” She is pi...
Not only did Salish Kootenai College graduate its largest class ever Saturday afternoon, but also the school welcomed United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as its commencement speaker. SKC President Robert DePoe III introduced Duncan, the 9th secretary of education. Duncan’...
PABLO – To welcome nursing graduates into the nursing profession, the Salish Kootenai College Nursing Department held a pinning ceremony on Friday, June 6. Emily Colomeda, head of the Lake County Public Health Service and an SKC nursing graduate, spoke to the students. Although nursing is more de...
PABLO — The Montana Democratic Party kicked off its 2014 Spring Statewide Native American Community Lunches tour at Salish Kootenai College on May 27. Andrea Marcoccio, executive director of the Montana Democratic Party, greeted about 40 community members, activists, candidates and party leade...
PABLO — Sweetie Pie perched on Carlos Rodriques’ arm and watched the crowd at the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center. Sweetie Pie is a goshawk, and Rodriques hunts with her. The goshawk was raised in captivity, Rodriques said, and when he picked her up she was about two weeks old, just a litt...
Future foresters and culinary artists descended upon Ronan last week as the school hosted two state FFA competitions. Buses took 100 students from 10 schools into Crow Canyon for the Forestry competition, while the Food Science event was held simultaneously at the Lake County Fairgrounds. “It wen...
PABLO — With cutouts of women of all sizes and shapes lining the road, including Wonder Woman, the 6th annual Women 4 Wellness event drew a huge crowd. Women 4 Wellness’ goal is to help women become involved in their health care and to help them take the steps necessary to live healthy l...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes PABLO — Local third-grade artists from across the Reservation have completed excellent entries for this year’s annual International Migratory Bird Day poster contest sponsored by the CSKT Wildlife Management and Information & Educ...
PABLO — With an impressive line-up of drums, the Salish Kootenai College powwow filled the Joe McDonald Health and Fitness Center on May 9 and 10 with grand entries at 7:45 on Friday evening and at 1 and 7 p.m. on May 10. This is the second annual powwow for SKC, hosted by Spirit of the Bison. This ...
PABLO — Despite a rainy forecast, participants were greeted with perfect running weather for the annual Women 4 Wellness Run 4 It 1-mile/5k race on Saturday, May 10. The overall women’s fastest 5k time belonged to ShiNaasha Pete (29:29) and the mens’ winner was Patrick Lake (21:57). The rac...
