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The Eighth Judicial District Advisory Council agreed to recommend Cascade County s current Standing Master, attorney David Joseph Grubich, and Judge Michele Reinhart Levine to Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte to fill the vacancy on the court during their meeting Wednesday. The council decided to rank their choices with Grubich being the council’s first choice.
The council, assembled by Gianforte and made up of lawyers, a former judge, former law enforcement and local leaders in the community, unanimously agreed that both Grubich and Levine had the qualifications and experience to do the job.
Former Cascade County District Court Judge Greg Pinski, who participated in the meeting via telephone, spoke to Grubich’s tempered nature as the current standing master of the Eighth Judicial District.
Hundreds of Native American children’s remains were recently found in a mass grave at a residential school site in Canada. Indigenous communities are calling for further investigations into similar sites across the U.S. and Canada.
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“Physical beatings were a matter of course. Food deprivation occurred almost all the time. People ask me, ‘What was your overall feeling of this place?’ And I say, ‘Well, it was hunger, ” said Doug George, whose Akwasasne Mohawk name is Kanentiio.
Kanentiio, whose name means “handsome pine,” describes life at an Indian boarding school, also known as a residential school, in the 1960s.
“The intent was to extinguish us as Aboriginal people and destroy whatever sense of self-worth we had, and I can say that they succeeded to a large degree,” Kanentiio said. “They killed our spirit. They killed us.”