On federal wards

On June 14, 2014, then state Sen. Bruce Tutvedt, Kalispell, met with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. CSKT council, within their public meeting, listened while Mr. Tutvedt expressed a masterful intent. An intent to overcome the very reason the 2013 CSKT water compact failed, introduced by then Representative Dan Salomon.

Per Mr. Tutvedt evidenced in the CSKT corporate minutes: “I have a core team that’s ready to go and Dan Salomon is working with some core members too. We have a plan in place how to fix that 60-vote problem in the house. Dan has that plan figured out.”

Sure enough, in 2015 the CSKT water compact squeaked by with a final vote of 53-47, which normally, per Montana legislative rules would require a minimum of 60 votes. Good job Mr. Tutvedt, and now Sen. Dan Salomon for your perseverance to carry out the will of a federally domesticated, dependent federal ward of the United States corporation.

For more information on federal wards, aka federal instrumentalities, please read the pending Supreme Court case Sharp v Murphy No. 17-1107 relating to “Indian Country” the promotion of federally beneficial off-reservation resource extraction, a direct assault upon state sovereignty.

—Heather Rush, St. Ignatius