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(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. 

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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…

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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.

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 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. 

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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…

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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…

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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…

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(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…

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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.

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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.

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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…

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(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. 

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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).

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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…

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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. 

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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…

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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…

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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. 

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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. 

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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…

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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 …

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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. 

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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. 

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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 

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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…

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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…

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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. 

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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. 

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