Séliš Ksanka Ql̓ispé Dam: The Power of Perspective

Séliš Ksanka Ql̓ispé Dam has generated electrical power from the lower Flathead River since 1938 and embodies an enduring conflict between opposing ways of life. Decades of federal assimilation policies targeted Native Americans and set the stage for Montana Power Company to build the 204-foot-high concrete gravity-arch hydroelectric facility within the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana.