Page 48 - Flathead Reservation News Today

The legislature passed a number of bills related to tribes in Montana that still await Gov. Greg Gianforte’s signature. These included a bill putting in place reporting requirements for Indian Education for All funds, a bill placing the Indian Child Welfare Act in state code and a bill reimbursing Lake County for federal criminal jurisdiction on the Flathead Reservation.

Calls to change how Yellowstone bison are managed have been given new life this spring, following the deadliest year on record for the national park’s wild herds.

Cedar Hunt's recent painting, “Girl on Horse,” won the Congressional Art Competition for Montana’s First Congressional District, represented by U.S. Congressman Ryan Zinke, and will hang in the halls of Congress for the coming year.

Cedar Hunt's recent painting, “Girl on Horse,” won the Congressional Art Competition for Montana’s First Congressional District, represented by U.S. Congressman Ryan Zinke, and will hang in the halls of Congress for the coming year.

It’s been three years since Head Start hosted a powwow, according to Jeanne Christopher, head of Early Childhood Services for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, as she officially opened the pow wow on April 28.

Lake County will receive $2.5 million annually in funding for the next two years under a bill passed by the Montana Legislature.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, alongside 10 other tribal nations, has sent a letter to the Canadian government asking it to address mining in British Columbia because of the harm they say it is causing on indigenous lands in Montana and other border states.

A New Exhibition at the Whitney Museum Explores Questions of Identity and Tradition Through Works of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith By Scarlet Cheng The new

Acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling returns with a new novel.

The temporary closure of Mollman Pass Trail Road, south of Ronan, was lifted last Thursday thanks to an agreement between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Lake County and the Montana Department of Transportation.