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Earlier this year, the Higgins Avenue Bridge was officially renamed the Beartrack Bridge, to honor the Bitterroot Salish peoples who crossed the river over a hundred years ago on their own ‘trail of tears’ to what is now the Flathead Reservation.

Sx͏ʷix͏ʷ͏uytis Smx̣e: With CSKT blessing, Higgins bridge to become Bear Tracks Bridge Martin Kidston/Missoula Current The new $17 million bridge is scheduled for completion this year, which also marks the 130th anniversary of the forced removal of the indigenous people that occupied the valley prior to the arrival of European settlers. and last updated 2021-02-24 18:27:28-05 MISSOULA — After winning the support from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the Missou...

A creative writing program that brings writers into schools on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

Grants fund writers in reservation schools, touring veterans play A play about the experiences of military veterans that will tour the state of Montana. Those are two projects by Missoula-based organizations that received funding through National Endowment for the Arts grants announced recently. The Missoula Writing Collaborative got $30,000 for “Young Voices of the Mission Mountains,” a series of creative writing residencies in which seven schools will host writers to work with students in...

Published on February 7th, 2021 In 1859, the U.S. Senate signed the Treaty of Hellgate with the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d’Oreilles tribes who today are known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. Father Adrian Hoecken, a Jesuit priest, said at the time of signing the treaty four years previously that the translations were so poor that “not a tenth of what was said was understood by either side.” What it amounted to was a 20 mi...