Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World’ grew from her work on the Clark Fork Superfund case. But the book itself reaches back to the first encounter between the Salish and Jesuit missionaries, where radically different ways of understanding land collided — with consequences that continue to unfold.
The inaugural festival brings to Missoula more than a dozen Indigenous artists, musicians and writers for panel discussions, live music, an art market and more.
In “Outrage,” Irish artist Brian Maguire uses radical care to honor some of Montana’s missing and murdered Indigenous people, transforming their portraits into acts of both remembrance and resistance.
Funding cuts at the National Endowment for the Arts jeopardize a decades-old writing program for elementary school students on the Flathead Reservation.
How a DOJ legal brief referencing an outdated Native American birthright ruling amplified fears and distrust within Indigenous communities about citizenship and deportation.
Members of Missoula’s Native community have called out talented local musician Cara Schulz and her band Florabelle for cultural appropriation — and pressured the ZACC to backtrack in booking the act. As the band and the community arts center both try to show accountability, can they find the right notes?
Indigenous students in Missoula experience a ceremonial buffalo blessing and harvest thanks to Blackfeet tribal elders and, of course, the life-giving “iinnii.”
