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CSKT announces completion of MMIP Response Plan The U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the District of Montana, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes , and the FBI have announced the completion of the nationâs first Tribal Community Response Plan.
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The U.S. Attorneyâs Office for the District of Montana, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) and the FBI have announced the completion of the nationâs first Tribal Community Response Plan.
âMurdered Indigenous people is a harsh reality that native people face today unfortunately no tribal nation has gone untouched by this crisis. said CSKT Council Chairwoman Shelly Fyant.
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Indigenous peoples reclaim the National Bison Range
“We are such a place-based people. To have this land back, to be in control of it, is a fresh, new hope.”
According to High Country News author Anna V. Smith, after 113 years, the 18,800 acres of grassland, woodland, and wildlife that make up the National Bison Range will be returned to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Native American Tribes (CSKT) of Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation.
“It’s a reconciliation,” said Chairwoman Shelly Fyant to High Country News. “We are such a place-based people. To have this land back, to be in control of it, is a fresh, new hope.”
Related When Shane Morigeau was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation, he knew that the land inside the fenced National Bison Range was different from the tribal lands elsewhere on the reservation, at the base of Montana’s Mission Mountains or the shores of Flathead Lake. He remembers being a kid in his dad’s truck, driving past while his father explained that the lands inside the fence weren’t tribal lands anymore. As tribal elders tell it, it was common knowledge that the fence was as much to keep them out as it was to keep bison in. “It happened long ago,” Morigeau said, but “it still resonates across generations.
After decades of battling misinformation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recover their lands and the herd. Image credit: Pete Caster Jan. 26, 2021 From the print edition
When Shane Morigeau was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation, he knew that the land inside the fenced National Bison Range was different from the tribal lands elsewhere on the reservation, at the base of Montana’s Mission Mountains or the shores of Flathead Lake. He remembers being a kid in his dad’s truck, driving past while his father explained that the lands inside the fence weren’t tribal lands anymore. As tribal elders tell it, it was common knowledge that the fence was as much to keep them out as it was to keep bison in. “It happened long ago,” Morigeau said, but “it still resonates across generations.