
Kaitlyn Nicholas
Tribal Affairs ReporterKaitlyn Nicholas covers tribal news in Montana.
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Native lawmakers in Montana say this year’s legislative session brought laws created without tribal government input.
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The Billings Police Department is investigating a report that a Northern Cheyenne tribal councilwoman was assaulted in Billings.
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The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are the second tribal nation to integrate a new Montana missing persons reporting website into their protocols when people go missing in the Flathead.
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Look up “runner” on the Internet and results likely include training plans, exercise clothes, and inspirational photos of muscular athletes, most of them white. Verna Volker didn’t see herself in those search results, so she created Native Women Running, a community for women who often run as an act of healing.
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Multiple groups are petitioning the federal government to rename three Montana geographic features to replace the name of a Confederate Civil War leader to names that honor Montana Native Americans and the Chinese immigrants who built the state's mines.
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Nearly 30 Indigenous advocacy groups are condemning the work of a presidential task force on missing and murdered Indigenous person cases.
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Amid Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s awareness week, we’re going to hear from the host of the new podcast called Stolen: The Search For Jermain, which follows the story of Jermain Charlo, a 23-year old member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes who went missing in Missoula in June 2018.
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The State of Montana has taken the first step in a process to transfer operational management of a state park to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
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Native American lawmakers are asking the Biden administration to craft a federal plan to reintroduce wild bison to areas in and around Glacier National Park and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
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The third bill in a package meant to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis in Montana was signed into law Thursday.