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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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Since the onslaught of wildfires, particularly over the last decade here on the Colville Reservation, many Colville Tribal Members have contacted the Forestry Department about being updated on our efforts to replant forested areas severely impacted by wildfires.  

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Incumbents Dustin Best, Virgil “Smoker” Marchand, Andrew Joseph Jr., Sharleen Zacherle and Joseph Somday return, while Inchelium boasts two new faces in Cody Peone and Cindy Marchand 

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NESPELEM, Wash. – Thirty seven professors from the University of Washington, covering a variety of disciplines, visited the Lucy A. Covington Government Center. Cody Desautel provided an overview of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation to the visitors.

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BRIDGEPORT, Wash. – Ceremony and science connect as tribal members, tribal leadership, staff from Fish & Wildlife and local youth witness the First Salmon Ceremony at the Chief Joseph Hatchery in Bridgeport, Washington on May 26, 2022. 

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GRAND COULEE, Wash. - Germaine Sitting Crow was welcomed home Saturday to a dinner with friends and family at La Presa in Grand Coulee. His mother, Shawnee BearCub, invited guests to join them in celebrating the transformation of her son from a civilian to a Marine. A boy to a man.

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Sonny Sellars has joined the staff at the Tribal Tribune. He wrote for the Tribune in 2013. He has a double-major in Exercise Science and Spanish with a minor in English from Eastern Washington University (EWU).

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NESPELEM, Wash. -The Colville Tribes Food Distribution Program would like to thank all the volunteers that helped make the March 18th, 2022 Nespelem Mobile Market Event a success, thank you to 2nd Harvest for providing the foods that served 153 households in the community. 

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NESPELEM, Wash. March 15, 2022 - Anglers have an opportunity to get paid to fish for northern pike in Lake Roosevelt.

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The Colville Tribes in partnership with Conservation Northwest, Upper Columbia United Tribes, Okanagan Nation Alliance, and others have been capturing lynx in Canada and relocating them to the Colville Indian Reservation to help establish a healthy, self-sustaining population.

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Michelle Campobasso | Public Relations Specialist, Colville Confederated Tribes Fish & Wildlife Department

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OMAK, Wash — Tribal members gathered on Thursday, January 27, 2022 to witness the Omak Tribal Head Start staff host a ceremony of song and prayer over the grounds where the future building for Omak Tribal Head Start will be built.

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In the months of October and November, staff were spawning summer chinook twice a week in addition to shocking (the force on eggs that occurs during handling) and picking spring chinook eggs.  They will continue this work in December. Staff also released thousands of salmon fry in rearing ra…

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For the second year in a row, chinook salmon have spawned successfully in the upper reaches of the Columbia River, above Chief Joseph and Grand Coulee dams

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NESPELEM — Colville Tribal member, Laura Morago, has been has been hired as the new Editor-in-chief for the Colville Confederated Tribes. 

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Nespelem, Wash. – In the past few weeks, several lynx (wápupxn) have been captured in Canada and relocated to the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington state in hopes that a resilient population will be established there.

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MOSES MOUNTAIN - Colville Tribal Forestry Department, along with the BIA, successfully planted around 37,600 whitebark pine seedlings over a 200-acre area atop Moses Mountain this fall. 

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When a Veteran dies. Below is a Information checklist to the spouse or family member:

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(Nespelem, WA) — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation announces that it must postpone its Annual Membership Meeting scheduled for Friday October 1st, 2021. This decision was made in an effort to keep families and employees safe during the Covid-19 emergency. The Tribes will se…

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(Nespelem, Wash. September 22, 2021) –   The past few months have been hectic and exciting to say the least as staff began collecting salmon in early July for the CJH program. They also stocked the community freezer and distributed salmon to Colville tribal members and to other tribes.

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Nespelem, Wash. September 22, 2021 – In the last few weeks, a total of 116 adult Pacific lamprey were released in Omak Creek, Salmon Creek, Loup Loup Creek and in the Similkameen River.

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(Nespelem, WA) — The San Poil Treatment Center is hosting an open house for the public on October 1st, 2021 to celebrate its grand opening. Guided tours will be given between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and refreshments and snacks will be served. A separate, invitation-only grand opening event will b…

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(Nespelem, WA) — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will distribute disaster relief payments to offset the financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. All enrolled tribal members over the age of 18 as of September 9, 2021 will qualify for two payments, each in the amoun…

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NESPELEM - For the past six years with exception to 2020, the Education departments of the Colville Confederated Tribes have gathered together to plan an eventful ceremony to celebrate this year’s graduates.

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NESPELEM – Recently, hundreds of adult summer chinook were released upstream of Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams.  

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KELLER – Standing a few feet in the Sanpoil River, Andy Joseph Jr., Chairman for the Colville Confederated Tribes Business Council, watched the chinook salmon he was about to release be passed down the line of people – hand to hand - to him.

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INCHELIUM – Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz made the long trek from Olympia to the remote community of Inchelium to meet with members of the Colville Business Council, July 28, to discuss the recent Chuweah Creek and Summit Trail fires.

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COULEE DAM - As part of their summer school project, working in the Lake Roosevelt High School woodshop, Colville tribal members Elijah Palmanteer and Aidan Palmateer have worked to build a 16-foot skiff.

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