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Chris La Tray's avatar

I'm right with you on all of this. I just want to add that I'm a big fan of Shelly Fyant, the CSKT chairwoman too.

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CharleyCarp's avatar

What I find a little interesting is what this is telling us about Republican politics right now. I thought it a clever election ploy when Sen. Daines introduced the bill earlier in the year -- given how important the votes from Indigenous communities had been in Sen. Tester's victory.

But none of that explains at all why he (and Rep. Gianforte!) would expend the effort to get this enacted now, after the election, but before the ruby red trifecta (led by Gov. Gianforte!) takes over in Helena. There had been a little talk about the legislature doing some mischief wrt the CSKT compact -- I'm not hooked into winger culture enough to know how serious this was -- and with some very quick action, Sen Daines has just taken that off the table.

I think the Fort Belknap compact is the only one of the 7 Tribal compacts awaiting ratification by Congress. It doesn't seem to engender nearly as much antipathy as the CSKT compact, so we can hope maybe it gets ratified in the next Congress (if I haven't missed its ratification already) and that'll end this 40+ year endeavor . . .

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