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Kootenai (Kutenai) · kootenai · kutenai · Ksanka · Ktunaxa · Kootenai Tribe of IdahoKootenai (Kutenai)
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- Pacific Northwest
In the record
The United States made one treaty or agreement that names Kootenai (Kutenai) as a party: Hellgate Treaty (Bitterroot Salish, Pend d'Oreille, Kootenai), 1855.
The records group it with Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Today, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Kootenai Tribe of Idaho carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
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Who is doing the work
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Working with these nations
- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) Nation government National Bison Range restoration (about 18,800 acres) Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 3, matched by the Forest Service, under review
Present-day governments that carry this history 2
Part of 1
Party to 1
Sources
- kootenai.org/unclassified
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho is one of several bands of Ktunaxa people
- federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/01/30/2026-01899.txtprimary record
Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
- cskt.org/our-story/unclassified
the Upper Pend d’Oreille (Ql̓ispé), and the Kootenai (Ksanka) people
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