Two stories in the Havre Daily News:
The number of Native Americans in the Hill County Detention Center became a topic at a meeting between Ravalli County officials and Confederated Salish and Kootena tribal leaders.
The comments of the Ravalli County Planning Commission has created a stir around the state.
Ravalli County commissioners oppose the tribes' plan to put 58 acres of tribally owned land into trust with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, saying the county would lose $808 in annual property taxes.
The meeting ended on a sour note when county planning board chairman Jan Wisniewski of Darby said he'd recently gone on a fact-finding trip around the state, during which he visited with law enforcement officials in Havre who, he said, complained about their jails being filled with "drunken Indians." http://www.havredailynews.com/story/2013/11/25/local/hill-county-jail-entangled-in-ravalli-dispute/2474.html
The very next story in the Havre Daily News:
A Rocky Boy man will spend more than seven years in federal prison for threatening and sexually abusing a woman, including pouring gasoline over her and saying she would burn.
Blair Chiefstick, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse in federal District Court in Great Falls.
Chief District Court Judge Dana Christensen sentenced Chiefstick Thursday in the court in Great Falls to 87 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, said a press release issued Friday afternoon.
The press release said Chiefstick was charged after he went to a woman’s house on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation to ask for beer following a day of drinking beer and huffing gasoline. http://www.havredailynews.com/story/2013/11/25/local/chiefstick-sentenced-for-pouring-gas-on-abusing-woman/2478.html
Coincidence?
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