Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes hosted the 3rd annual Beartracks Celebration Powwow on Indigenous Peoples Day in downtown Missoula on Monday.

One of Montana’s tribal groups opposes a federal proposal to cap and contain industrial pollution at a Columbia Falls plant, saying it could continue to affect their fishing treaty rights on the Flathead River.

At the request of a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes company, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to keep more water in Flathead Lake this year.

After receiving no answer by the end of the summer, the Ktunaxa Nation, including the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, have set a November deadline for a meeting between the U.S., Canada and tribes to discuss the selenium pollution in the Elk and Kootanei rivers caused by Canadian coal mines.