EDITORIAL: Quite simply, there are no better neighbors
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October 2, 2024 1:00 AM
Even the most recent Kootenai County newcomers are likely aware that the Tribe runs a top-notch casino and golf course just south of Coeur d’Alene. But our neighbors to the south are so much more than tourism magnets.
Roughly 2,200 tribal numbers inhabit the 345,000-acre reservation. This proud Native people’s land today is less than one-tenth its ancestral home, 3.5 million acres across Montana, northern Idaho and Washington. Mother Earth is revered, and if the land is the body, then Lake Coeur d’Alene is the life-giving soul.
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