First published in 1941 and recently revived, Norman Macleod’s semi-autobiographical novel “The Bitter Roots” excavates Missoula’s buried past, including its young men trying to prove themselves amid war, class struggle, and cruelty.
The Trump administration chokes off funding for Humanities Montana, freezing statewide programming on Montana culture, literature, history, democracy and arts.
Like grizzly bears and anti-government militias, nuclear bombs lurk in our backyard. As world leaders bet and bluff in the great poker game of nuclear strategy, Montanans wrestle with the consequences of being the nation’s “nuclear sponge.”
An out-of-state transfer center is among troubling accounts from current and former employees at Missoula’s private equity-owned Community Medical Center.
For wolf protection advocates, it’s been a wildly successful 30 years since wolves were reintroduced to the Northern Rockies. But the backlash toward the apex predator is only growing more fierce.
Indigenous students in Missoula experience a ceremonial buffalo blessing and harvest thanks to Blackfeet tribal elders and, of course, the life-giving “iinnii.”
With his memoir “Becoming Little Shell” and a life steeped in storytelling, Montana’s poet laureate challenges us to listen, commit, and create “The Good Life.”
