MontanaViolence Against Women Act (VAWA)
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Opinion: Violence Against Women Act works
(5/4/2013)
(Montana) -- In Montana alone in 2003, 11,562 people were victims of domestic violence, 1,715 people were victims of stalking, and eight adults, two children and one...
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Baucus hears praise for Violence Against Women Act at Missoula roundtable
(2/19/2013)
(Montana) -- U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., got a roomful of support for reauthorizing the federal Violence Against Women Act during a visit to Missoula on Tuesday.
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UPHAM: Empowering Native Women
(12/20/2012)
(Montana) -- Since the Violence Against Women Act passed in 1994, it has empowered victims of domestic violence to step forward and seek help.
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Two Years Later: Native Nations Pushing for Implementation of the UN Declaration
(12/16/2012)
(Montana) -- On December 16, 2010, President Barack Obama announced United States support of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Mining & Drilling
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Jury finds defendants guilty in Bakken oil scam
(5/1/2013)
(Montana) -- The four remaining defendants in a Bakken oil leasing scam that duped unwitting investors across the country out of hundreds of thousands of dollars were...
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Crow tribe to lease 145 million tons of coal
(3/30/2013)
(Montana) -- The Crow tribe plans to lease an additional 145 million tons of coal to Westmoreland Coal Co. The lease is located next to the Absaloka mine in southeastern...
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Flurry of oil exploration fizzles on reservation
(3/20/2013)
(Montana) -- A flurry of oil exploration activity on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that raised hopes and concerns has fizzled with the announcement from a Denver-...
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Anschutz Exploration to halt oil, gas drilling on Blackfeet Reservation
(3/19/2013)
(Montana) -- A Denver-based energy exploration company that has been searching for oil and gas on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation alongside Glacier National Park...
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Company eyes coal on Montana's Crow reservation
(3/17/2013)
(Montana) -- A mining company plans to start exploratory work this spring on an estimated 400 million tons of coal beneath Montana's Crow Indian Reservation, adding...
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At tribe's request, DEQ extends comment period on coal mine
(1/29/2013)
(Montana) -- The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has extended the time for the public to submit comments on the proposed Otter Creek Coal Mine project in...
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Tribe Signs Coal Deal with Mining Company
(1/25/2013)
(Montana) -- Leaders of the Crow Tribe agreed Thursday to give a Wyoming mining company rights to lease an estimated 1.4 billion tons of coal beneath the tribe's...
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Glacier park looks to influence Blackfeet drilling
(12/29/2012)
(Montana) -- On the edge of the Blackfeet Indian reservation, oil exploration companies are drilling wells as the tribe dreams of a strike that will lift its people out...
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Montana's Oil Boom Has Made Reservations More Dangerous for Women
(12/23/2012)
(Montana) -- Early on the morning of January 7, Sherry Arnold, a popular schoolteacher from Sidney, Montana (population 5,436) was jogging down a road when she was...
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Glacier park looks to influence Blackfeet drilling
(12/21/2012)
(Montana) -- On the edge of the Blackfeet Indian reservation, where the Rocky Mountains rise out of the Great Plains like shark's teeth, oil exploration companies...
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Montana's Oil Boom Has Made Reservations More Dangerous for Women
(12/20/2012)
(Montana) -- Early on the morning of January 7, Sherry Arnold, a popular schoolteacher from Sidney, Montana (population 5,436) was jogging down a road when she was...
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Voter Suppression
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OP/ED: Questioning the reservation voting lawsuit
(4/23/2013)
(Montana) -- In the March 29, 2013, issue of the Great Falls Tribune was an article titled, “Feds: Judge erred on Indian voting.” As an enrolled member of...
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Guest opinion: 30-day registration cutoff would keep many Montanans from voting
(3/10/2013)
(Montana) -- Western Native Voice has watched House Bill 30, short title "An Act Revising the Close of Late Voter Registration" with growing alarm.
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Inequality for Indian voters alleged
(3/10/2013)
(Montana) -- Later this month, parties will begin filing briefs in a federal lawsuit where the outcome could have major implications for Indian voters in Montana and the...
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Land Issues
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Ravalli County votes against BIA purchase of 60 acres near Darby
(4/18/2013)
(Montana) -- The Ravalli County Commission voted Thursday to oppose an application for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs to acquire about 60 acres south of Darby.
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Native Voices
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Native Empowerment: One State at a Time
(4/6/2013)
(Montana) -- The Montana voter registration and mobilization program started by Western Native Voice in 2011 had a large impact on the 2012 election.
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BLOG: Native women fail to find justice
(1/11/2013)
(Montana) -- In 2005, two Native American women in Oklahoma were kidnapped, blindfolded, and raped by three non-native men. Because they were blindfolded, they didn'...
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Guest opinion: Indian Country will suffer if U.S. goes over fiscal cliff
(12/23/2012)
(Montana) -- The fate of the Indian Health Service in Montana probably isn’t the foremost issue on the minds of budget negotiators in Washington working to avert...
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Native Vote
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Feds: Judge wrong to deny Indian election offices
(3/28/2013)
(Montana) -- Civil rights attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department contend a federal judge wrongly denied a request to establish satellite election offices for...
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Montana Democrats Rebuff Native Voting-Rights Lawsuit
(3/19/2013)
(Montana) -- The Montana Democratic Party has rejected a March 6, 2013, request from Mark Wandering Medicine, Northern Cheyenne, to endorse the Native side in the voting...
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Native American voting rights case gets a 2nd look
(3/5/2013)
(Montana) -- The United States Ninth Circuit Court has agreed to hear to hear an appeal in a Native American voting rights. Montana federal judge Richard Cebull denied a...
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Native American voting rights case gets a second look
(3/4/2013)
(Montana) -- A Native American voting rights case gets a second look as the United States Ninth Circuit Court agrees to hear an appeal. Montana federal judge, Richard...
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Appeals court: Indian voting lawsuit can go on
(2/22/2013)
(Montana) -- An appellate court has ruled a lawsuit seeking satellite voting offices on three Montana reservations can go on.
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Residential Schools
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American Indian boarding schools topic of UM lecture Monday
(3/24/2013)
(Montana) -- University of Minnesota American studies Associate Professor Brenda Child will deliver a lecture titled “The American Indian Boarding School...
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Native Author Discusses Adventures in an Indian Boarding School
(12/9/2012)
(Montana) -- M.L. McCluskey, or Murt, as he prefers to be called, graduated from the Cut Bank Indian Boarding School in Browning, Montana after eighth grade.
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Cobell
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UM's Native American Center to honor Cobell
(3/10/2013)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell had a way of sorting through complex Native American land ownership tangles and combing out what's right. It's part of the legacy the...
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Native land, culture institute at UM to honor Elouise Cobell
(3/6/2013)
(Montana) -- Elouise Cobell had a way of sorting through complex Native American land ownership tangles and combing out what’s right.
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New UM center named for Native American leader Elouise Cobell
(3/6/2013)
(Montana) -- The history of Native American rights leader Elouise Cobell is being given a special place in Missoula, with the naming of a new institute on the University...
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Application deadline today for Cobell settlement
(3/1/2013)
(Montana) -- Today is the deadline for American Indians to apply for their share of the second installment of the Cobell settlement with the federal government, a $3.4...
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Some Montanans still waiting for Indian trust checks
(1/20/2013)
(Montana) -- The multi-billion dollar settlement that Elouise Cobell worked toward for more than a decade was finalized several months ago, two years after it was...
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Thousands continue to wait for Cobell settlement check a month after distribution
(1/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The post office in Crow Agency has foot traffic day in and day out, as tribal members search their P.O. boxes in hopes to find an important piece of mail.
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Gov't rolls out $1.9B Indian land buyback program
(12/18/2012)
(Montana) -- U.S. government officials said Tuesday they are launching a $1.9 billion Native American land buyback program now that a nearly 17-year lawsuit over more...
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Payments authorized for $3.4B Indian lawsuit
(12/12/2012)
(Montana) -- A judge has authorized the start of payments to American Indians in a $3.4 billion settlement involving the federal government's mishandling of land...
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OP/ED: Cobell / Too late for some
(12/9/2012)
(Montana) -- Earlier this month, Dennis Gingold, lead attorney in the 16-year-long Cobell lawsuit, sent a letter to nearly 500,000 American Indians nationwide saying...
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Lessons from Indian trust fight priceless
(12/3/2012)
(Montana) -- The finish line to a race that started more than 17 years ago will be crossed later this month when plaintiffs in a lawsuit by American Indians against the...
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Cobell settlement comes too late for beneficiaries who passed
(11/29/2012)
(Montana) -- The $3.4 billion settlement to the Cobell trust fund lawsuit was announced in December 2009 but payments were delayed amid opposition in Congress and...
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Idle No More
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Idle No More Movement continues to evolve
(2/21/2013)
(Montana) -- Another Idle No More rally sprang on the steps of the Capitol on Monday lead by Montana Native leaders. Over 200 people assembled for the Indian People...
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Native American activists urge MT poor to be 'Idle No More'
(2/19/2013)
(Montana) -- A global grass-roots movement descended on the grounds of the Capitol on Monday, lead by prominent Native American leaders in Montana.
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Idle No More returns to state Capitol
(2/18/2013)
(Montana) -- Members of the growing Idle No More movement made a second appearance at the state Legislature on Monday with a rally and round dance on the north steps of...
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Native American activists urge Montanans to 'Idle No More'
(2/18/2013)
(Montana) -- A global grassroots movement descended on the grounds of the Montana Capitol on Monday, lead by prominent Native American leaders in Montana.
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'Idle No More' march in Missoula draws attention to aboriginal rights
(1/11/2013)
(Montana) -- There was method to the march across the Higgins Avenue Bridge and back Friday afternoon. The “Idle No More” protest movement that began a month...
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LGBT News
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OP/ED: On Being Gay and Chippewa Cree
(1/24/2013)
(Montana) -- The intersection of my identity as a gay man and a Chippewa Cree tribal member begins at the intersection of Route 87 and Highway 448.
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Op-ed: Same Tribe, Same Acceptance
(1/6/2013)
(Montana) -- The intersection of my identity as a gay man and a Chippewa Cree tribal member begins at the intersection of Route 87 and Highway 448.
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Bankruptcy
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Bankruptcy trustee drills into casino developer's bank box
(1/23/2013)
(Montana) -- Acting on a tip about hidden assets, a U.S. bankruptcy trustee in Billings drilled through the lock on a safe deposit box at Stockman Bank and found $77,250...
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Census
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USDA: American Indian Farmers and Ranchers Need to Stand Up and Be Counted
(1/13/2013)
(Montana) -- The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service released the following notice urging Native farmers and...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Montana approves Keystone pipeline easements
(12/17/2012)
(Montana) -- Montana is approving easements to let the Keystone XL pipeline cross state-owned land, including the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers.
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Other News
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Judge who freed Barry Beach laments his return to prison
(5/17/2013)
(Montana) -- A Montana judge said he fears he’s done a “soul-wrenching injustice” to a man he freed from prison after 27 years, only to see him ordered...
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Board won't let ousted chair regain his seat
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The Chippewa Cree Election Board has decided former tribal Business Committee Chairman Ken Blatt St. Marks is ineligible to regain the position in an...
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Sequester cuts for CSKT Tribal Law and Order
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Law and Order Department are experiencing an approximate cut of $80,000 for 2013, according to Chief of Police Craig...
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Tribal patrols ramp up for buckle up campaign
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- Tribal police officers are asking motorists to buckle up during increased patrols for seat belt enforcement. The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribal...
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Barry Beach back in Montana State Prison, likely for rest of his life
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate entered what could be its final stage this week,...
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Registration open for National Native American Student Conference held at UM
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The University of Montana and Salish Kootenai College will co-host the College Board’s Native American Student Advocacy Institute’s national...
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Blackfeet artist to exhibit unique approach to ledger art
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- Terrance Guardipee fuses traditional Blackfeet imagery with historical documents to find “a new way to express ledger art,” he said.
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Horse racing returning to Great Falls (watch video)
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- Horse racing returning to Great Falls: Cascade County Commissioners voted 2-1 to approve an agreement with the Great Falls Turf Club to run horse racing to...
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Defendant to plead guilty in Crow corruption case
(5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- The youngest defendant in a corruption case on Montana’s Crow Indian Reservation has reached a deal with prosecutors and says he will plead guilty on...
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Sixth person arraigned on theft of federal money meant for Rocky Boy's Reservation
(5/15/2013)
(Montana) -- A sixth person has been arraigned on charges of stealing federal money meant to aid the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation.
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CSKT official says health care law will present issues for Indians
(5/15/2013)
(Montana) -- You can look at the potential questions and problems facing many Indian people across the nation when it comes to the Affordable Health Care Act, and...
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Barry Beach back in custody after Supreme Court ruling
(5/15/2013)
(Montana) -- After two years of freedom, a Montana man is back in custody after a state Supreme Court ruling that could send him back to prison for the rest of his life...
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Barry Beach in custody in Yellowstone County
(5/15/2013)
(Montana) -- After 524 days of freedom, Barry Beach, the man convicted of murder for the 1979 slaying of Kimberly Nees near Poplar, is on his way back to Montana State...
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Children learn from elders at River Honoring
(5/15/2013)
(Montana) -- The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes celebrated gifts of life, travel and beauty during the 26th annual Lower Flathead River Honoring last week.
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Tribal tribute kites coming to airport
(5/14/2013)
(Montana) -- The large buffalo that Billings artist Angela Babby painted on rip-stop nylon is dramatic. But when the painting becomes a kite, it will be even more...
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New legal challenge as spring bison hazing begins
(5/14/2013)
(Montana) -- The annual hazing of bison into Yellowstone National Park is underway, prompting a wildlife organization's latest attempt to block the use of a...
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FWP dismisses wolf baiting claims
(5/14/2013)
(Montana) -- Claims that a Montana outfitter illegally baited wolves by leaving animal carcasses in a pile on his property near Yellowstone National Park were rejected...
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Crow corruption trial delayed until August
(5/14/2013)
(Montana) -- A federal judge on Tuesday pushed back the trial for the four remaining defendants in a corruption case on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation.
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Tribal members request resolution for Flathead Water Compact proposal
(5/13/2013)
(Montana) -- The proposed Flathead Water Compact may have been cast aside by the Legislature. But the questions and debate over how to manage water in the Flathead Basin...
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Missoula council, CSKT representatives discuss economic development
(5/13/2013)
(Montana) -- Beyond deep historical and geographical connections, the Missoula Valley and Flathead Indian Reservation share many things.
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