Significant Washington Land Returned to the Colville Tribe, its Original Stewards

Significant Washington Land Returned to the Colville Tribe, its Original Stewards

Recent highlights:

1. 5 million and with a gift of land from The Nature Conservancy in Washington—a part of the ranch that was gifted earlier from Eddie Figlenski to TNC with the intent it be preserved and stewarded— Conservation Northwest purchased and transferred the whole of the Figlenski Ranch back to the Confederated Colville Tribes to honor Indigenous conservation and their connections to these lands.

2. What are now referred to as the Colville Tribe are in fact 12 distinct bands and tribes of Indigenous peoples, who since the creation of the original Colville Indian Reservation in 1872 were ordered to relocate and live within the boundaries of a tract of land much, much smaller than their original territory

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