Cognizant-ATG on Thursday passed a $250,000 check to the University of Montana to boost two programs designed to increase the success of Native American students.
The event gathered indigenous people from throughout the state. They discussed entrepreneurial ideas and businesses with the goal of the event to encourage and promote wealth in indigenous areas that can be generated from within.
Kari Lake’s campaign manager likened all Native Americans to bloodthirsty savages who engage in human sacrifice in a racist tweet mocking the concept of Indigenous People’s Day.
The Montana Historical Society and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have reached an agreement to return Big Medicine, a white bison born at the National Bison Range in 1933, to the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Louis Vanderburg's father-in-law was known as Sxwuytis Smxe, or Grizzly Bear Tracks. He signed the Hellgate and Judith River treaties in 1855. Now, a bridge in downtown Missoula bears his name.
It was a special way to mark Indigenous People's Day in Missoula as the bridge over Higgins Avenue was dedicated as Beartracks Bridge in honor of the people who once called the area home.
Several tribes — including the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and the Winnemucca Indian Colony in Nevada — have gone to court in an effort to pause any excavation and construction at Thacker Pass by Canadian-based Lithium Americas. However a federal judge ruled against the tribes.