Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy addresses the crowd at a rally in Bozeman alongside Gov. Greg Gianforte on Aug. 9, 2024. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan)
More than 200 individuals and churches across the state have added their voices to a recent letter by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes that call for U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy to apologize for remarks he made about the Crow Indian people.
The petition to put pressure on Sheehy, a Republican, to apologize comes after an organization of tribal governments called on Sheehy to do the same, and after a debate between Sheehy’s opponent, three-term incumbent Jon Tester, a Democrat…