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Ron Trahan, chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, introduces Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior. GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
Interior Secretary Jewell Praises CSKT as ‘Pioneers’ of Land Buy-Back Program
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W•O•R•D•S of the Week
AN INDEX OF RECENT NEWSMAKERS
AIRSHOW
Labor Day Weekend is always a bustling time in the Flat- head, but this year’s holiday will have an added boost with the arrival of the Mountain Madness Airshow at Glacier Park International Airport. (STORY, PAGE 52)
WILDERNESS
On Sept. 3, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act, creating a national system of preserved lands, including many acres of scenery across Montana. Today 5 percent of the land in the U.S. is set aside as pro- tected wilderness. (STORY, PAGE 22)
DONATION
The latest expansion of Vol- unteer Park in Lakeside is being formally unveiled this week after Margaret Davis and her husband Bruce Ennis worked to acquire another lot of property that has been given to the public for access on Flathead Lake. (STORY, PAGE 10)
SCHOOL
It’s back-to-school time
for the valley’s students and teachers. Good luck on another successful school year. To find out which sports storylines will be worth following this fall. (STORY, BACK PAGE)
First offers in Cobell agreement’s Land Buy- Back Program to be mailed Sept. 5 to tribal members with fractional land interests
By TRISTAN SCOTT of the Beacon
PABLO – Sally Jewell’s visit to the
Flathead Indian Reservation last week marked an historic occasion for two rea- sons.
In addition to announcing the first offers by the federal government to con- solidate tracts of land on the reservation under the watershed, $3.4 billion Cobell
settlement agreement, Jewell, the 51st Secretary of the Interior, was blazing trail on terra incognita simply by paying the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes a visit – inexplicably, she was the first In- terior secretary ever to do so.
“I’m amazed that I am the first Secre- tary of the Interior to visit here. It must be
See Jewell PAGE 28
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