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Water rights and the legitimacy of the Flathead Compact

by Jim Elliott
| October 27, 2022 12:00 AM

How would you feel if you found that you and your water rights were the victim of a “fraudulently derived, over-reaching, unconstitutional water compact”? Pretty heated, I would guess, and rightly so if that were the case.

The compact I am referring to is the Flathead Water Compact between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation (CSKT), the state of Montana and the United States...

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