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The Glacier Reporter
Browning, Glacier County, Montana
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Montana's Indian tribes, via the Inter-Tribal Policy Board in Helena, condemned the proposed Knowles Dam for the federal government's failure to compensate Flathead Indians for over 19,900 acres of reservation land that would be flooded, including grazing areas.
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Helena—failure of the federal government to provide for payment to the Flathead Indians for lands and damsites which would be lost through construction of Knowles dam has brought condemnation of the project from the state's affiliated Indian tribes.
The Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board, meeting here, said: "In neither the Knowles or Paradise projects no mention has ever been made by the government or it's agencies of any value to be paid to the Indians of the Flathead tribes for the loss of their lands and damsites." The Indians own the sites where the Buffalo Rapids two and four dams are proposed for private-capital construction.
Also pointed out in the resolution adopted by the board was that Knowles would flood out 19,905 acres of Indian lands on the Flathead reservation, including several thousand acres of "rich, valuable winter grazing lands."
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Helena, Montana
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condemnation of the knowles dam project by the montana inter-tribal policy board; resolution adopted highlighting lack of compensation for 19,905 acres of flooded indian lands including winter grazing lands.
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The Montana Inter-Tribal Policy Board, meeting in Helena, condemned the federal government's failure to provide payment to the Flathead Indians for lands and damsites lost to the proposed Knowles dam. The board noted no mention of compensation in the Knowles or Paradise projects, and that the Indians own sites for proposed Buffalo Rapids dams. The Knowles dam would flood 19,905 acres of Indian lands on the Flathead reservation, including valuable winter grazing lands.