It has formed a governance body to take on the issue. Tom McDonald, vice chair of the Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council, based on western Montana's Flathead reservation, said Canadian coal mines ...
Rebecca Stumpf for The New York Times The Kootenai called the area around Glacier National Park Ya·qawiswit̓xuki — “the place where there is a lot of ice.” In 1850, there were 80 glaciers ...