Incashola, who died earlier this week at the age of 76, was a key figure in the cultural revival on the Flathead Reservation in the 1970s. He served on the Séliš-Ql̓ispé cultural committee for decades and held the role of committee director since 1995.
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.
The event, organized by women’s rights groups Zonta International and the Montana Native Women’s Coalition, was the first in-person MMIP march in Billings since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Department of the Interior this week released a report that for the first time lists former federal Indian boarding schools in the country. The investigation found 18 sites in Montana.
An analysis of the 2020 census's accuracy found it counted 9.7 million people who identified as a Native American or an Alaska Native, but the Indigenous population on reservations was undercounted by nearly 6%.
A federal study of Native American boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools and more than 50 associated burial sites.
Dozens of people Thursday walked across Browning to commemorate a national day of awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous persons. The walk comes as the local college is launching a database that aims to help resolve unsolved cases.
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.
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.
Last year, archaeologists in Canada found hundreds of unmarked graves of children at the sites of former government- and church-run schools for Indigenous students. Eldon Yellowhorn, who studies this issue, is scheduled to speak at the University of Montana April 7.
Sarah Mosquera/The Fort Belknap Indian Community is training its young people to collect native grass seeds and restore their lands into the future.
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.
