Applications are due June 1 for Montana licenses to hunt sandhill cranes and swans this coming fall. Special sandhill crane hunting districts that require applications for licenses are mostly in the Pacific Flyway of western Montana. Swan hunters may apply for either the Pacific Flyway or Central Flyway, but not both. Hunters may online at ols.fwp.mt.gov or over the counter at any FWP regional

During the Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board’s full meeting April 22 in Poplar, a cemetery plan for Poplar was approved as was a gaming premises license for Buck Skin Bucks Casino located at Poplar’s Fort Peck Video. The board agreed to sponsor the Fort Peck Sioux singers with $1,000 to attend the G.O.N. powwow as invited drum representing the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes. The board

The Justice Department joined its partners across the federal government, as well as people throughout American Indian and Alaska Native communities, in recognizing May 5 as National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. In recognition of MMIP Awareness Day, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland highlighted ongoing efforts to tackle the MMIP and human trafficking crises in American