Arlee
Arlee is a community in the Jocko Valley at the southern end of the Flathead Indian Reservation, near the Lake and Missoula county line in Montana, homeland of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and especially the Bitterroot Salish, and known for the annual Arlee Celebration powwow. Its life centers on the tribal community, the Jocko Valley's ranches and farms, and the local school and businesses. Media & Technology Group builds bespoke business platforms (custom software, AI automation, managed IT, and marketing) for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, their programs and enterprises, and the Arlee area's ranches, farms, and local businesses, and we serve them remote-first from York County, Pennsylvania. Distance is no barrier, and we add on-site time when a project warrants the trip. When we build for the Nation, the Nation owns its data and its systems, full stop.
Do you work with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and businesses in Arlee, Montana?
Yes. Remote-first from our York County, Pennsylvania base, and being a Jocko Valley community on the Flathead Reservation is no obstacle: nearly all of our work is done remotely, with on-site visits when a project warrants it. An Arlee client, the Tribes, a tribal program, or a local business, gets a named contact, a regular maintenance window, and direct access for urgent issues.
Is Arlee in Lake County or Missoula County, Montana?
Arlee sits at the southern end of the Flathead Reservation in the Jocko Valley, right near the Lake and Missoula county line, and is most often associated with Missoula County. Whichever county line you fall on, it's the same Flathead Reservation and the same Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and we serve the community the same way.
If you build a system for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, who owns the data?
The Nation does, full stop. We respect tribal data sovereignty: the Tribes own their data and their systems outright, the data stays under the Nation's control, and there is no vendor lock-in.
Can you respect tribal data sovereignty and the Tribes' governance of their own information?
Yes. That's foundational to how we work with a Nation. We build so that data ownership, hosting, access, and governance stay with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, and we document it plainly so there's never ambiguity about who controls what.
Can you build Salish language tools for the Arlee community?
Yes. We can build interfaces, content, forms, and language-preservation or education tools that support the Salish (Séliš) language alongside English, scoped to how the Tribes, the schools, and the community want to use them.
Can you help a CSKT tribal program or a cultural event like the Arlee Celebration?
Yes. A tribal program, or a powwow, cultural, or events operation like the Arlee Celebration, is exactly who we build registration, scheduling, vendor, ticketing, and reporting platforms for, on the Nation's terms and with the Nation owning its own data.
Can you help an Arlee ranch or Jocko Valley farm?
Yes. A cattle ranch or farm in the Jocko Valley near Arlee is exactly who we build herd, production, irrigation-scheduling, recordkeeping, and logistics tools for, around how the season and the operation actually run.
Where does AI help an Arlee organization or business?
In intake, scheduling, case management, registration, recordkeeping, customer or member email, and follow-up, so a tribal program, a ranch, or a local business gets real leverage without adding headcount, while keeping data under its own control.
What's the cybersecurity baseline for an Arlee tribal or local organization?
Managed EDR, MFA, immutable backups, phishing filtering, and a written recovery plan, plus secure payment handling and access controls aligned to the Nation's data-governance rules. We set it up and manage it for you, with the Nation retaining control.
What does a custom platform cost an Arlee organization?
A single focused workflow runs from the high four figures into the mid five figures; we scope it to what the Tribes or your business actually needs and phase it so value lands early.
How long until it's running, and who owns the code and data?
Usually eight to ten weeks to the first live workflow, then iterative improvements from there, and you own the code and the data outright, with no lock-in. For the Nation, that ownership and data sovereignty are the starting point, not an afterthought.
Can you help an Arlee organization or business get found online?
Yes. Local SEO, outreach, and communication tools tuned for Arlee, the Flathead Reservation, the Jocko Valley, and the wider Lake and Missoula county area, so the people, families, and visitors searching find you first.
Can you help with a powwow or cultural event website and registration?
Yes. We build event sites, registration, vendor management, and scheduling tools for cultural events like the Arlee Celebration, with respectful framing and the Nation owning the data, scoped to how the community runs the gathering.
What we do for Arlee businesses
Every engagement is built around how your Arlee operation actually runs, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, a tribal or cultural-event program, a Jocko Valley ranch or farm, or a local business, not an off-the-shelf template, and for the Nation, with tribal data sovereignty and ownership built in. Here's where we help:
Custom Software Platforms
Case-management, event-registration, herd, production, scheduling, and reporting platforms built around how the CSKT, a program, an event, a ranch, or an Arlee business runs, with the Nation owning its data and systems outright.
Intelligent Automation
AI and workflow automation that takes intake, scheduling, registration, recordkeeping, and email off an Arlee team's plate, so your people focus on the work, with data kept under your control.
Marketing & SEO
Local SEO, event sites, outreach, and communication tuned for Arlee, the Flathead Reservation, the Jocko Valley, and the wider area, so the people, families, and visitors searching find you first.
Managed IT & Cybersecurity
Managed EDR, MFA, immutable backups, secure payment handling, and access controls aligned to tribal data-governance rules for an Arlee organization, handled remotely with on-site help when needed.
Consulting
Practical advice for Arlee leaders, tribal and local, on where technology, AI, and data sovereignty fit a program, cultural event, ranch, or service operation.

