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  • Gender Affirming Care for transgender minors available at IHS

    By Louis Montclair For The Journal A potential landmark Supreme Court ruling could uphold a Tennessee law prohibiting transgender teenagers from accessing gender affirming medical care. This could uphold laws in states across the country, including Montana, which prohibit medical workers from providing gender affirming care for minors. However, this ruling would not impact Indian…

  • Tribal Court Hiring Policy Violation: New Assistant Prosecutor Details

    By Louis Montclair For The Journal Tribal leaders violated their policy when they hired a new Assistant Prosecutor to work at the Tribal Courts. During the December 9, 2024 full board meeting, the council voted to approve the hiring of Justiss Toavs to the Assistant Prosecutor Position. Everyone with the exception of Stacey Summers, Carolyn…

  • Visitors force tribal leaders into two day meeting

    Tribal leaders were unable to stay focused during a two day full board meeting. Starting Monday, August 26, 2024, the regular full board meeting hosted visitors from the State of Montana Fish and Game Department. The visitors took up a large part of the morning, and provided the Tribal Executive Board with a catered lunch…

  • Tribes join Yellow Kidney lawsuit

    Tribal leaders joined a class action lawsuit regarding Montana Indian Education. During the second day of the full board meeting, tribal in house attorney Cher Stewart informed the council the status of the lawsuit and asked if the Tribes were interested in joining. This is being done at no cost to the Tribes, and it…

  • Tribal Funds Deobligation: Impact on Back to School Awards and Projects

    Over $1 million in approved payments were stopped to cover the tribal back to school awards. During the August 12, 2024 full board meeting, Tribal leaders voted to deobligate funds previously approved for tribal housing renovations and other projects that were being funded through federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money. After a long discussion…

  • Montana GOP Senate Contender Tim Sheehy’s Debunked Claims Reviewed

    Montana GOP Candidate Tim Sheehy made lots of comments and statements when he met with the Tribal Executive Board. Sheehy, 38, paid the council a “listening session” when he stopped by the Tribal Building Monday, August 12, 2024. While he was here he made numerous statements about his campaign. Here is a fact check of…

  • Tim Sheehy’s Meeting with Montana’s Fort Peck Tribal Leaders

    Fresh from a Trump rally in Bozeman, Montana’s Republican candidate for Senate made a brief visit at the Fort Peck Tribal Headquarters. Tim Sheehy paid a visit to the Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board Monday, August 12, 2024. The GOP candidate made a stop in Poplar with tribal leaders during the regular full board meeting.…

  • IHS hosts Army doctors

    The US Army doctors who recently visited the reservation reported a successful turn out of patients. During the full board meeting Monday, July 8, 2024, the Indian Health Service Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert Donlick and Service Unit Director Marjorie Spotted Bird reported that during Operation Walking Shield, the doctors saw so many patients they…

  • Tribal Jail guards accused prisoner abuse

    Federal and tribal authorities are investigating the death of a 25-year-old man in the Tribal Jail. Anthony Friskey, 25, was being held in Fort Peck Tribal Jail when he died. The incident and events leading up to his death are currently part of public discussion after being posted on social media. The Tribal Jail Director…

  • Tribal Council rejects use of technology to locate sacred burial sites

    The Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board denied approval of new technology being used to survey the ground before any kind of construction can happen. During the December 11, 2023 full board meeting, the council approved of a request from Fort Peck Housing Authority to use Jo’Etta Plumage coming on site with ground penetrating equipment to…