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.
ROB CHANEY
PABLOÂ â Minutes before the start of a Tribal Council meeting, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Chairwoman Shelly Fyant took a moment to consider the confirmation of Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary.
âIt gives me chills,â Fyant said. âGrandmothers all over the world are talking about the shift the world has taken â to have a Native American and a woman to serve an agency that hasnât always done the greatest job in Indian Country.â
Overcoming opposition led in part by Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines, Haaland earned a 51-40 vote in the Senate on Monday to join President Joe Bidenâs Cabinet. As Interior Secretary, Haaland oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, Indian Water Rights Office, Fish and Wildlife Service and other departments that have a direct impact on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
An estimated 6,000 people spent their lunch hour with Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday. Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, headlined
LAURA SCHEER
As the new stewards of the National Bison Range, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are looking to the future with a vision for continued conservation, bolstering the herd, improving the landscape and telling the story of why the bison and the land they live on is so important to their culture and history.
âOur vision is to continue to keep it as is, and maybe enhance the bison that we see there, as well as managing the other species that are there, predominantly rocky mountain elk,â said Rich Janssen, head of the CSKT Natural Resources Department, this week. He said theyâre also looking to improve nutrition value of the vegetation on the land used for grazing. âWe want to keep them doing what theyâre doing, which is being wild animals.â