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Amskapi Piikuni Partnership

Amskapi Piikuni Partnership

[Image Description: Seven members of the Piikuni Lands Crew stand in a field next to the river, looking through binoculars.]

Open Opportunites

  • * Kalispell/Browning, MT
    * $125.00 per day
    * $500 bonus upon completion
    * May 13th - August 21st

    Benefits/Training:
    * Wilderness Advanced First Aid Certification
    * Wilderness Risk Management
    * Driver training
    * Leadership & facilitation training
    * All training that members receive

  • * Kalispell/Browning, MT
    * $100.00 per day
    * $500 bonus upon completion
    * June 5 - August 21

    Benefits/Training:
    * First Aid/CPR Certification
    * Fire safety
    * Chainsaw Training
    * Invasive species removal
    * Camp set up/maintenance
    * Bear Aware training
    * Wildlife surveying
    * COVID Safety
    * Resume building/job search training

**Must be at least 18-years old and an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe or descendent of the Blackfeet Nation to be eligible.

This program is a partnership with Blackfeet Manpower, and they have additional requirements:

  • Be a veteran OR be registered with selective services.
  • Be unemployed or low income 
  • Register with job services (Tuesdays or Wednesdays from 1pm to 3pm) 
  • Complete either Job Readiness Training (or the Fatherhood/Motherhood Training) 
  • Complete the skills bank application

 

For more information contact:

Shelbi St. Goddard- shelbi@mtcorps.org [ 406-396-7841 ]

Joe Jessepe-  joe@mtcorps.org [ 406-845-9977 ]

 

Piikuni Lands Crew

Joining the Piikuni Lands Crew gives you the opportunity to work alongside others from the Blackfeet Nation who share your interest in making a lifelong impact on the community and nearby ancestral lands. 

Through this experience you will have the opportunity to gain valuable job skills including trail maintenance, wildlife surveying, fencing, invasive species mitigation, and much more. In addition to technical skills, you will gain cultural education and experience in team-work, communication, and leadership. Project partners include The Blackfeet Tribe,  Blackfeet Manpower, Tribal Historic Preservation Department, Glacier National Park, the USDA Forest Service, Montana Wil, Nature Conservancy, and Iinnii Initiative.

Members will receive a week of orientation and technical skills training, followed by 11 weeks of field-based project work, taking place on tribal and public lands. Most projects will be “day projects”, meaning the members will go home at night, there will likely be a couple of weeks where the crew will camp out overnight.

Highlights: Spend time in the Badger-Two Med, visit Yellowstone National Park, and survey loons near Glacier

Piikuni Lands Crew at Work

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