Ktunaxa Free State

Kootenai (also spelled Kutenai) is a state formed mostly of US state parks and reservations in the northwestern corner of the state of Montana. The official name of the state is Ktunaxa Free State, though the state encompasses all the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation and was the result of an agreement between the Ktunaxa Nation and the recently reconstituted government of the United States of America in 1993. It consists of the former Montanan counties of Lincoln, Flathead, Missoula, Mineral and Lake, with a total area of 14,426 sq mi. Though a minority (about 12,000), the Ktunaxa support a population of about 200,000 that continue to live in the cities. The capital city is Missoula.

Motto
Preserve, Protect, Perpetuate, and Enhance (English)
Capital
(and largest city) Missoula
Other Cities Columbia Falls, Kalispell, Polson, Whitefish
Language English, Kutenai
Demonym Kootenian
Legislature Kootenai Legislature
Governor Bud Moran (I)
Lieutenant Governor Joe Durglo (I)
Area 17,216 sq mi
Population 222,019 (2020 Census)
Admission July 4, 1993
Currency Buffalo Dollar
Abbreviations KI