Researchers analyze retardant use Feb 3, 2008
The red slurry retardant allows some exotic weeds to replace native grasslands, according to preliminary results of a study by Salish Kootenai College and the University of Montana ... By no means does this suggest that retardant should be eliminated as a method for fire control, only that there may be an environmental cost to native grasslands, said Levi Besaw, a Salish Kootenai College student and the study's lead researcher. (Missoulian, MT)
Ads allege council will alter CSKT government Dec 13, 2007
He faces Michael H. Dolson, chairman of the Native American Studies Department at Salish Kootenai College. n Ron Trahan, running for re-election in the St. Ignatius District. (Missoulian, MT)
First time for everything: At athletic center's grand opening, Bison Dec 11, 2007
Members of the Salish Kootenai College women's basketball team take to the court on Monday prior to the opening ceremony dedicating the new Joe McDonald Health and Athletic Center in Pablo ... The best part, Lefthand said, is to look at the basketball floor and see the name of his school, Salish Kootenai College, painted there instead of Ronan Chiefs. (Missoulian, MT)
SKC facility plans grand opening Dec 9, 2007
Salish Kootenai College officially christens its 5 ... The Salish Kootenai College men and women are both defending national champions, having won the season-ending American Indian Higher Education Consortium tournament last season. (Missoulian, MT)
First class to enter Montana Indian HOF Dec 7, 2007
Kipp now lives in Ronan, where she's an assistant coach for the women's basketball team at Salish Kootenai College. Marvin Camel won two world boxing championships in the cruiserweight division, including the World Boxing Council and the International Boxing Federation in 1980 and 1983, respectively. (Missoulian, MT)
SKC postpones grand opening of athletic center Nov 9, 2007
PABLO There are some things that might be left undone that wouldn't stop the Salish Kootenai College Bison from opening the Joe McDonald Health and Athletic Center on Friday and Saturday, but a basketball floor isn't one of them ... Salish Kootenai College has fielded men's and women's teams for years that play an independent schedule against a mixture of tribal colleges, junior colleges and college junior varsity teams. (Missoulian, MT)
Montanan, only American Indian, seeks spot on pro basketball roster Nov 4, 2007
Bryce played some high school ball and did one season at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. I was pretty nervous when I first got here, Bryce said during the lunch break after a grueling morning of drills. (Montana Standard, MT)
Weeklies Reader - Careless burglar leaves Libby police baffled Oct 16, 2007
Many of the buildings on the Salish Kootenai College campus are named for people and families who have played important roles in the tribes Kenmille, Mathias, Michel and when longtime SKC president Joe McDonald stepped forward to help dedicate the college's newest structure, no one was surprised at the name the school's board of directors had chosen. The Joe McDonald Health and Athletic Center was dedicated as the college celebrated its 30th anniversary, honoring the man who has played a major... (Missoulian, MT)
SKC at 30 / School marks anniversary with meat drying, music and more Oct 5, 2007
Kayla Guardipe, right, and Dominic Martinez, second from right, both Salish language students from Two Eagle River High School, cut deer meat for drying Thursday at Salish Kootenai College's 30th anniversary celebration in Pablo ... So it fell to people like Joshua Brown to cut the deer meat and tend the fire Thursday at the meat-drying station, one of several demonstrations ranging from drum-making to beadwork going on around campus as Salish Kootenai College celebrated its 30th anniversary ...... (Missoulian, MT)
Director says grant brings in millions to state Oct 3, 2007
PABLO A 601,742 grant to Salish Kootenai College from the U.S. Department of Education translates into millions of dollars for Montana's economy, according to Robert Peregoy, SKC's director of career and technical education ... his is a great recognition of the efforts of the Salish Kootenai College, Rehberg said. (Missoulian, MT)
Growing strong: Salish Kootenai College is one of the most successful tribal colleges in the United States Oct 1, 2007
Salish Kootenai College, which began in 1977 with classes you could count on one hand, about four dozen students and a couple of classrooms in an abandoned school in Polson, celebrates its 30th anniversary this week ... All four attended Salish Kootenai College, three graduated with bachelor's degrees and one went on to obtain a master's ... So at Salish Kootenai College, next door to the Three Woodcocks Building that houses, among other things, the school's art classes, you'll find the Hide... (Missoulian, MT)
SKC celebrates Oct 1, 2007
Salish Kootenai College celebrates its 30th anniversary with events Wednesday through Friday. The schedule. (Missoulian, MT)
Presidential presence: Joe McDonald has headed Salish Kootenai College for 28 years Sep 30, 2007
Salish Kootenai College president Joe McDonald pauses during a tour of the 140-acre campus in Pablo recently ... PABLO Joe McDonald is just about the only person on the Flathead Indian Reservation who remembers Joe McDonald is not the only president Salish Kootenai College has ever had ... But it is McDonald who has presided over the phenomenal growth of Salish Kootenai College, which today serves more than 1,100 students on its 140-acre Pablo campus, for 28 of the past 30 years. (Missoulian, MT)
Workshop focuses on respect for culture on the job Sep 10, 2007
The problems can become especially evident in the workplace, and they can be further compounded in the mental health arena, according to presenters at a cultural competency workshop last week at Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Reservation ... Respect in the workplace extends into myriad areas, which is why conference sponsors - Meloney Ridley, director of the Lifelong Learning Center at Salish Kootenai College, and Bill Tuss, president of Vantage West - are already responding to demand... (Missoulian, MT)
Hoop brings message of hope Sep 2, 2007
She was on the Salish Kootenai College campus, walking between buildings in search of a power cord, when she saw the White Bison van. She dropped everything to listen to Coyhis. (Helena Independent Record)
Bonner farewells: 16 families forced to move as Stimson expands east log yard Sep 1, 2007
At 48, he's been brushing up on math and English at the Dickenson Adult Learning Center, and he'll soon be training at Salish Kootenai College to be a heavy equipment operator. t's a year's program, and I should be able to get a job after that, he said. (Missoulian, MT)
Lawmakers get to work on money for Montana projects Aug 27, 2007
5 million were for institutions of higher learning, including Montana State University, the University of Montana, Montana Tech, Carroll College, Rocky Mountain College, Flathead Valley Community College, Miles Community College and Salish Kootenai College. About 48 of Rehberg s requested projects worth 89. (Helena Independent Record)
Powwow royalty: Pablo girl proud to represent family, elders and people Jul 7, 2007
Now enrolled at Salish Kootenai College majoring in elementary education, she would like to teach someday. ative youth would benefit from having more Native educators, she said. (Missoulian, MT)
Annual Arlee Celebration begins Tuesday Jul 3, 2007
Arlee, a student at Salish Kootenai College, is the youngest son of Johnny Arlee, a spiritual and cultural leader of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and descendant of Chief Arlee, the last war chief of the Salish. When subsequent eagle feathers fall during the week, he explained, they are picked up and blessed by Octave Finley, war dance chief. (Missoulian, MT)
Strengthening tribal health care Jun 2, 2007
"I will be introducing a long-sought, important bill to create a program for tribal colleges to promote health-related education and train American Indians to join the health-related work force," said Tester in a pre-released speech that he planned to give during Saturday graduation ceremonies at the Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Reservation ... Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., championed land grant status for tribal colleges, said Joe McDonald, president of the Salish Kootenai College, on... (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Governor on board with local-food push May 19, 2007
Missoula County Public Schools, Salish Kootenai College, UM Western and Montana State University have also launched similar initiatives targeting purchases from local growers. For a moment, Schweitzer got serious and asked the crowd, ho's your farmer. (Missoulian, MT)
Upward Bound - some to Ivy League May 5, 2007
So it's been an exciting spring for the Upward Bound program at Salish Kootenai College. Three of its high school senior students have won prestigious scholarships, and three more underclassmen have been selected t. (Missoulian, MT)
Tony Dungy signs ball for Salish Kootenai College Apr 14, 2007
PABLO Salish Kootenai College scored another touchdown Thursday. You may recall the story about the college almost on a lark sending out letters to 105 professional football, baseball and hockey teams last year, asking them to donate items for SKC's annual scholarship auction and dinner. (Missoulian, MT)
Salish Kootenai College starts hot in Rapid City Mar 31, 2007
RAPID CITY, S.D. - The Salish Kootenai College teams picked up two wins each Thursday, as the American Indian Higher Education Consortium tournament got underway here. The SKC men started off wtih an 89-65 win over Fort Berthold College of New Town, N.D., behind 19 points each from Ed Running Rabbit and Delbert Trombley, and another 16 from Howard Walker. (Missoulian, MT)
Knock, knockPowerful Native American art, including the gripping work of George Longfish, asks the question: Who's here? Mar 30, 2007
It is scheduled to go to Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, to venues in Great Falls and Helena, as well as the University of South Dakota and the University of Northern Iowa. A stunning catalog, eorge Longfish: A Retrospective, with text by Kate Morris and a forward by Manuela Well-Off-Man (curator of art at MMAC), will be available for purchase online and at MMAC's galleries April 3. (Missoulian, MT)
SKC / Colts ball will help scholarship fundraiser Feb 16, 2007
Now, the Salish Kootenai College Foundation may laugh all the way to the bank ... The Salish Kootenai College Scholarship Auction and Dinner is Saturday, May 19, at the Kwa Taq Nuk Resort in Polson. (Missoulian, MT)
Piling up points: Salish Kootenai College Bison defeat Rams of Little Big Horn College Feb 13, 2007
University of Montana mascot, Monte, leaps over part of the crowd Monday night at the Ronan Events Center, where the Salish Kootenai College Bison basketball team took on the Rams of Little Big Horn College ... RONAN Just about everything that could go wrong for Salish Kootenai College's much publicized and equally rare home basketball game Monday, did ... Salish Kootenai College averaged more than 120 points in the four games, including two played on the Crow Indian Reservation in January. (Missoulian, MT)
Team spirit: Basketball players at Salish Kootenai College share a common passion to play the game Feb 12, 2007
CROW AGENCY - We are barely 43 minutes into the college basketball doubleheader, and things do not look good for the Salish Kootenai College Bison ... There are no basketball scholarships at Salish Kootenai College, and no gym either ... The women's team from Salish Kootenai College unloads at Little Big Horn College's Apsaalooka Center in Crow Agency after the nearly 500-mile trip from Pablo. (Missoulian, MT)
Love of the game: New gym and possible conference affiliation await SKC basketballers Feb 11, 2007
Members of the Salish Kootenai College men's basketball team loosen up before a game against Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency last month ... PABLO Monday is hardly the most important day in the history of Salish Kootenai College basketball ... Salish Kootenai College has talked about applying to join the Frontier Conference. (Missoulian, MT)
Media savvy high schoolers create College Goal ads Feb 10, 2007
The event is also being held at the same times at the following western Montana campuses: Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell and Libby; Blackfeet Community College in Browning; and Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. If you are going, here's what to do and bring before you get there. (Missoulian, MT)
Distinct Bison Herds Roam Yellowstone Jan 30, 2007
O'Brien was funded by Project TRAIN -- Training American Indians in Environmental Biology -- a project of UM and Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. "We just kind of say it takes crazy people like us to go out in the field and pick up poop from bison," she said, "but now we are getting some really important information regarding bison ecology out of it.". (Science Daily)
Going the distance: UM offers impressive number of volunteers Jan 28, 2007
Today, Domitrovich is a sociology professor who teaches at UM and Salish Kootenai College. Although it's been 40-some years since he set off with the Peace Corps to Ghana, which led to travels in India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, Brazil and a Fulbright Scholarship, Domitrovich believes the Peace Corps is as relevant now as it was all those decades ago. (Missoulian, MT)
Longfish artwork tours with grant help Jan 6, 2007
After the exhibition's debut in Missoula, it will travel to the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, S.D.; Salish Kootenai College in Pablo; the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls; the Holter Museum of Art in Helena; the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, S.D.; the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas; and The University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Reporter Joe Nickell can be reached at 523-5358 or at. (Missoulian, MT)
School Briefs Nov 30, 2006
The student group will visit Salish Kootenai College as part of Skilskin's Native American language program. The Colville Confederated Tribes are assisting with transportation and other expenses, Wilder told the board. (Grand Coulee Star, WA)
Salish Kootenai educator speaks on restoring history Nov 14, 2006
As part of her director's duties for the Tribal History Project at Salish Kootenai College, Cajune sought permission and fact-checking help from Salish elders to name 36 landmarks. Those elders deliberated for months about whether Cajune's project was worthy of knowing the names and, more importantly, the stories and significance behind them. (Missoulian, MT)
Native history Nov 10, 2006
A Salish Kootenai College official will explore the invented histories of Native peoples during colonial times in a Missoula lecture. Find out when and where in Friday's Montana section. (Missoulian, MT)
Slow road to Polson holds hot sauce, horses, bathroom views and more / Two lanes into Montana Oct 27, 2006
Corky Clairmont, director of the art department at Salish Kootenai College, designed the floor of The Three Woodcocks Building ... We've seen several tribal colleges on our journeys this year, but none quite so nice as the Salish Kootenai College campus in Pablo. (Missoulian, MT)
Burns, Tester take contrasting tacks on American Indian issues Oct 22, 2006
At a reception hosted later by Salish Kootenai College, several voters had one-on-one questions for Burns. Troy Arlee, an SKC student, asked the senator about his position on the Cobell lawsuit. (Helena Independent Record)
Burns says taxes at heart of campaign Oct 15, 2006
addresses a cafeteria crowd at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo last week ... Then it's off to a reception at the cafeteria of Salish Kootenai College. (Missoulian, MT)
Montana news briefs Oct 15, 2006
Joe McDonald, president of Salish Kootenai College, gave thanks for UM's 528 Indian students, a record number in the university's overall enrollment of 13,961. The timetable for building the center depends on funding. (Helena Independent Record)
Tribes rally against drugs, alcohol, violence Oct 9, 2006
The violence is always closer than most would like, said Joe McDonald, president of Salish Kootenai College. It s some of our families. (Helena Independent Record)
Two sentenced in murders near Ronan Sep 1, 2006
The two victims were students, Sirucek at Salish Kootenai College, Madplume a senior at Two Eagle River School in Pablo. Prosecutors said Sirucek was murdered to steal the cash he received earlier that day from a student loan. (Missoulian, MT)
Environmental impact statement urges three lanes on stretch of Highway 93 Aug 29, 2006
D'Arcy McNickle Library (Salish Kootenai College), 52000 US Hwy 93, Pablo. Mansfield Library, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula. (Missoulian, MT)
$460K grant aims to train state librarians Jan 29, 2006
That was the route taken by Fred Noel, the library cataloger and instructor at the Salish Kootenai College near Ronan. Noel, who earned a geology degree from the University of Montana and taught school for a while, had always held an interest in library sciences. (Billings Gazette, MT)
Science program benefits rural schools Jan 22, 2006
UM has partnered with Salish Kootenai College in Pablo to ensure that the curriculum is culturally appropriate for American Indian students, as well as broader audiences. He said Salish Kootenai College also has been subcontracted to create a mobile science lab that can visit schools in Western Montana's smaller communities. (Billings Gazette, MT)
