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  • Fort Peck Tribal Election by the numbers

    Low voter turnout again for Tribal Elections About a fourth of registered voters participated in this years Tribal Election. Results show that of 3,982 voters on the reservation, 1,538 actually voted in the election this year. Out of all districts, Brockton had the highest voter turn out. At least half of all eligible tribal voters…

  • Tribal Council: travel is a “necessary hardship”

    Tribal leadership claim traveling on tribal money is actually a hardship. During the full board meeting, Tribal Travel reports were presented by the two most recent Tribal Executive Board members to return from trips to Washington DC and Rapid City, SD. Before giving his report, Councilman Bryce Kirk said he was happy to return home…

  • Tribal leaders vote to protect sacred sites after human bones found

    After a discovery of human remains were determined to be graves from over 100 years old, the Tribal Executive Board voted to stop development on sacred sites. During the August 28, 2023 meeting, the first motion of the meeting was “to approve to stop all on and new development on known sacred sites on the…

  • Tribal Council finishes second half of full board meeting

    Days after being declared in recess, the regular Tribal Executive Board meeting was delayed again due to issues with the tribal building. The full board meeting was scheduled to resume Thursday, August 17, 2023, at 9 a.m., however street work south of the Tribal Building cut the flow of water to the complex for the…

  • Full board meeting unfinished, recessed until Thursday morning

    Tribal leadership leave to meet with Governor Gianforte After barely reaching a quorum, tribal leaders were forced to recess the full board meeting before finishing all tribal business. When the meeting started there were at least four Tribal Executive Board members (council member Justin Gray Hawk, Wayne Martell, Terry Rattling Thunder, Shannon Martell) absent, including…

  • Love Has No Color visits the Fort Peck Indian Reservation

    Love Has No Color, in partnership with the Fort Peck Tribes, paid a visit to the reservation last week. The group, also known as ‘The Chiropractors,’ arrived from the eastern United States and stayed on the reservation Friday, August 11, 2023, and left the next day. Approximately 30 different people came this year and held…

  • Tribes spend $2.5 million on children, elders

    Thousands of tribal members excluded from payment Tribal leaders approved household management payments to certain tribal members while excluding others. During the full board meeting Monday, July 24, 2023, the Tribal Executive Board approved a motion to pay $400 to every child under 19-years-old and to every elder 60 and older from the American Rescue…

  • TSHIP makes $425,000 for the Tribes

    Slated to hire more dentists With help from the Tribal Sponsorship Health Insurance Program, Tribal Health was given extra money to use in hiring more dentists. During the July 24, 2023 full board meeting, TSHIP funds of $425,471 to be given back to Tribal Health of use for hiring more dentists and staff. In House…

  • Tribes approve $1.3 million for Summer Food Service Program building

    Tribal leaders approved a request to build a new Summer Food Program eating site. The new building will be paid for with American Rescue Plan Act funds. No start or finish date has been set. During the full board meeting Monday, June 12, 2023, the Tribal Executive Board approved a request from Summer Food Program…

  • Tribal leaders spar over interpretations, meeting recessed until tomorrow

    Arguments over two different interpretations of the Tribal Constitution forced the Tribal Council to recess the regular full board meeting early. On Monday, May 22, 2023, Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure refused to recognize a motion to move Human Resources under Tribal Operations Manager Megan Gourneau.  The motion is unconstitutional, he said, because it violates the…