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The Nk̓͏ʷusm Salish Language School in Arlee is celebrating its 20th year of teaching kids about their culture. Nk̓͏ʷusm in Salish translates to family.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes over the weekend in celebrating the return of a western Montana bison range to tribal hands.
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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recently reclaimed management of the land that makes up the National Bison Range in northwest Montana. As the tribes resume their care of the land, they’re correcting inaccuracies at the bison range’s visitor center to better reflect their language and history in bison conservation.
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The Salish Kootenai College launched the program this fall that aims to train the next generation of fire, wildlife and forest managers in the Columbia River Basin in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. It's the first master’s program at the Pablo-based four-year school on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
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The suit filed in federal court alleges that overcrowding at the jail has led to violence, some inmates having to sleep on the floor and inmates sometimes being deprived of essential toiletries, like toothpaste, among other complaints.
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Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes voted out their chairwoman and another council member during a recent election.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants were awarded to the Blackfeet Nation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Climate Smart Missoula.
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A federal program aimed at funding affordable housing on tribal reservations hasn’t kept up with inflation since it was established in 1996. But hundreds of millions of dollars of pandemic relief money recently passed by Congress is giving tribal housing authorities the opportunity to build new homes for the first time in years.
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The Fort Belknap community and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes filed a lawsuit against the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and its director alleging the agency is not adequately enforcing a “bad actor” law pertaining to new mining permits.
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Two Montana officials are participating in a national roundtable event tomorrow about how to dismantle roadblocks keeping Indigenous people away from voting.