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OKANOGAN COUNTY, Washington (March 8, 2023) — Last week, Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC), the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) permanently protected two miles of the Okanogan River and a key piece of one of the stat…
(Nespelem, WA) March 7, 2023 — A sculpture of a salmon situated along the Waterfront Park trail near Barn Beach in Leavenworth, WA has been stolen. It was discovered to be stolen on February 16, 2023, shortly after it was installed on October 31st, 2022.
March 2, 2023 (Nespelem, WA) — The Consumer Protection Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office has filed a complaint in Spokane County against Zachary E. Love and ZEL & Associates, Inc. The complaint accuses Love of unfair and deceptive advertising and selling of le…
We are at the final stages of getting the Tribes Integrated Resource Management Plan Approved. A Record of Decision has been signed and we are now in a 30 day appeal period. After the 30 days we will have completed the process if there are no appeals.
NESPELEM, Wash. – The Colville Tribal Elections Office has released the 2023 Schedule of Events for the upcoming Colville Business Council Election, this week.
Nespelem, WA — Virgil “Smoker” Marchand passed away yesterday. Smoker was currently serving in the Colville Business Council as an elected representative from the Omak District.
Presently, the Colville Confederated Tribes (CCT) are working with a Demographer on completing a 100-year population study based on various demographic scenarios. This is a population study. No changes will be made to Enrollment requirements, the Code or Constitution.
Attachments for Code Revision 4-7 Forest Practices - Current version and Redline for comments and 4-9 Hydraulic Projects same.
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After spending years as a public defender and witnessing the challenges of Native Americans in her hometown, Jonnie Bray decided to go back to school so she could make a different kind of impact on people in her community and beyond.
Since October, hatchery staff have spawned hundreds of summer chinook and shocked and picked (the process of removing dead eggs) through thousands of spring chinook eggs. They will continue shocking and picking eggs throughout December. Hatchery staff also had help from Chelan County PUD st…
There’s something going on at North Central within the basketball programs. If you scour the rosters, you’ll find the last name of Ervin all over the place.
We are entering a new cooperative agreement with the US Forest Service hiring and training early-career folks to work and gain hands-on experience at National Forests and primarily make native seed collections for ecological restoration as part of the Bureau of Land Management-led Seeds of S…
Omak, WA (November 30, 2022) – 12 Tribes Colville Casinos’ team members are proud to contribute the annual holiday meals to local families in the Omak, Lake Chelan, and Coulee Dam communities. The holiday meals included turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, stuffing, dinne…
Osoyoos, B.C. - Shawn Wilson is Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba. He was the keynote speaker recently at the Okanagan Nation Alliance Syilx Indian Residential School Healing Gathering, November 28-29, 2022. “Through working with Indigenous people internationally, Shawn has applied Indi…
(Nespelem, Wash. November 29, 2022) – In the past few months, thousands of juvenile chinook were captured in the Sanpoil River, a tributary of the upper Columbia. The juveniles were produced from 178 adult chinook that were released in the river in 2021. These studies in the Sanpoil are pa…
Canada lynx numbers are on the upswing in eastern Washington due to successful trapping and hauling efforts in the last two years.
November 16 — Penelope Antoine and Talliyah Timentwa shared their stories as young women for Native American Heritage Month Speaker Series hosted by the CCT Youth Development Program.
CBC Chambers — Former Lake Roosevelt High School teacher and Wrestling coach, Mr. Steve Hood, was inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame for the Class of 2022 on November 5 in Yakima. A dinner of family and friends was held on Sunday, November 13 in Ele…
Nespelem Agency, WA – Rick Desautel was the invited speaker to celebrate Native American Heritage Month as part of a CCT Youth Development Program lecture series.
Denver, CO – November 2, 2022–The Clyfford Still Museum (CSM) will host the panel discussionCritical Communities: Colville Confederated Tribes and the Museumat 6:30 p.m. MST on November 17 in the Museum lobby. The panel includes Bailey Placzek, CSM’s associate curator catalogue raisonné rese…
OMAK, WASHINGTON (October 31, 2022) – Today, 12 Tribes Colville Casinos officially launched sports betting kiosks at their three locations in Lake Chelan, Omak, and Coulee Dam. Sports betting is available for many popular sports, including football, baseball, and soccer, with a minimum bet o…
(Nespelem, WA) — The Colville Tribes announces that the final suspect in this weekend’s shootings on the Colville Reservation is now in the custody of law enforcement. This arrest follows the apprehension of two other suspects earlier today.
Penticton, B.C.--The Syilx.org website for the Okanagan National Alliance describes The Four Food Chiefs Gathering as, “an annual gathering of Syilx Nation members. This event focuses on information sharing, utilizing the enowkinwixw model through our Four Food Chiefs. Each year, the event c…
NESPELEM, Wash.— Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Colville Tribal Business Council and staff from the tribes’ environmental trust department met Tuesday, October 18, 2022 to announce proposed revisions to the Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR).
Hunt is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes (Arrow Lakes, Palouse, Entiat, Moses-Columbia, and other bands), and was raised in Nespelem, Washington. She graduated from Lake Roosevelt High School in 1998. She was one of the original Gates Millennium Scholars while she attended the Un…
COULEE DAM, WA –Scouts of America Troops 52 and 24 volunteered with Okanogan Conservation District to mark 29 storm drains in Coulee Dam. The markers read, “NO DUMPING | DRAINS TO RIVER” to serve as a reminder that pollutant runoff into storm drains causes harm to fish and other aquatic habitat.
NESPELEM, Wash. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation announces that the State of Washington’s Department of Ecology has selected the Antoine Valley Ranch Phase 2 project for $3.95 million in funding. These funds will facilitate the Tribes’ acquisition of approximately 1,2…
NESPELEM, Wash. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation accepted a federal grant to construct internet infrastructure across the Colville Reservation in the amount of $48,405,830.78. Construction will occur over the next five years, and the specific final scope of the projec…
Francis was born on May 22, 1952, with a twin brother Joseph Lewis Somday. His father is William Lewis Somday, and his mother is Betty Lou Bonwell (Somday). He was born in the small town of Republic, Washington but grew up in Malo, Washington on the north half of the Colville Reservation.
NESPELEM, Wash. – On October 1, 2022, Colville Business Council, Colville Tribal leadership and tribal members convened at the Nespelem Community Center where tribal leadership provided an overview of the various facets of tribal government and its enterprises.
NESPELEM, Wash. –The Nespelem Celebration Grounds was the site for the Nespelem School Suicide Awarness Prevention on September 29. In 2018, the Colville Business Council declared a state of emergency due to the suicides on the reservation.
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Colville Reservation – Mitch Factor brought his expertise to share with families in Inchelium and Omak, sponsored by CCT Head Start. He was born and raised in Oklahoma, the youngest of 10 children in a, “very loving and strong family,” according to his bio. He shared a 90-minute presentation…
OMAK, Wash. – Roxanne Best has a unique set of skills. She is a small business owner that she has been able to apply in a variety of settings to different audiences. Her first endeavor was photography that she began doing in 2014. She has been teaching Stand-Up Paddle Board (SUP) Yoga since …
Kamloops, BC – The Kamloops Film Society hosted the inaugural indigenous film festival, September 1-3, 2022. On tap for the weekend were nine feature films: The Scattering of Man, Slash Back, Beans, Blood Quantum, WildHood, Returning Home, Portraits from a Fire, Scarborough, and Run Woman Run.
OMAK, Wash. – Korey and Brittany Carden had talked about opening a business amongst themselves. They had money saved up and were waiting on the right opportunity that fit their schedules and family needs. Korey works at the Waterfall Immersion School as a Primary Classroom Guide Apprentice a…
NESPELEM, Wash. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation invites the public to attend the Grand Opening of the Nespelem Softball/Baseball Field on September 16, 2022 beginning at 1:00 p.m.. Fun events are planned, and additional details about the celebration will be shared in…
SPOKANE, WA. – The Spokane Tribe, in partnership with the Upper Columbia United Tribes (UCUT), released 175 chinook into the Spokane River at the People’s Park, just downstream from Riverfront Park in Spokane.
Nespelem, Wash. (August 22, 2022) – A restoration project was recently completed this month along the Twisp River, a tributary of the Methow River, that will help to restore critical Habitat for spring chinook, summer steelhead and bull trout.
NESPELEM, Wash. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation reports there has been a slight delay in some of the per capita payments which are going out at this time. The delay affects a majority of the 3,289 payments which are made via direct deposit.
NESPELEM, Wash. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation honors Lawney Reyes upon his death on August 10, 2022 at the age of 91. The Native American artist, sculptor, interior designer, architect and writer was a longtime Seattle resident.
Washington State congressmen Newhouse, and congresswomen McMorris-Rodgers along with Arkansas congressmen Bruce Westerman visit the Colville Tribe, taking part in a forestry tour of the Reservation
PULLMAN, Wash. – Vanessa (Nessa) Ankney attends Washington State University (WSU) in their ROAR program (Responsibility, Opportunity, Advocacy, Respect). WSU ROAR is a Dept. of Education approved comprehensive transition and post-secondary program (CTP) for students with intellectual and dev…
Muscular strength is the ability to contract a muscle (make it shorter) to move a heavy load. This can be accomplished by going to the gym and doing Resistance Training (RT) by lifting weights, or doing body weight exercises. You should aim for 40 minutes a week at minimum to increase streng…
NESPELEM, Wash. — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation has appointed Cody Desautel to serve as the Tribes’ new Executive Director. The Executive Director is the administrative head of tribal government and reports directly to the Colville Business Council.
Nespelem Agency – Newly elected council members from the Inchelium District, Cindy Marchand and Cody Peone, took the oath of office with Virgil “Smoker” Marchand, Joe Somday, Dustin Best, Char Zacherle, and Andy Josephy, Jr.