Articles with the Tag: Native American
News from Ronan School District RONAN – Ronan Middle School student Luliana Brown has won the Missoula County Public School’s Native Youth Powwow Princess. Luliana is excited to carry this title due to her love of helping and encouraging younger generations. She has danced since she...
From MSU News Service BOZEMAN – Montana State University is seeking artists’ qualifications for public art for the university’s new American Indian Hall. The university is seeking qualifications from professional or emerging artists, or teams of artists, to produce original, site-sp...
News from St. Ignatius School District ST. IGNATIUS – The St. Ignatius School District is among the top 50 schools in the running to win a $75,000 art education donation thanks to the Vans Custom Culture competition. Students need your help to rally the community to help them become...
News from the Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana CHARLO – A new exhibit opens at Ninepipes Museum of Early Montana on Saturday, May 4. “CAKARPEKNAKI: With Respect and Without Waste,” celebrates the culture and traditions of Alaskan natives through a carved ivory collection recentl...
PABLO – Between classes, five teenagers met to discuss the upcoming trip for their photography class. When told they would fly to New Mexico by airplane, all five glanced up in unison; some giddy, others nervous. Only one member of the group has traveled by air before. Starting Sept. 15, Two E...
PABLO – A new photography exhibit adds a splash of pink tulle to the offerings at the People’s Center. The Pink Dress photography project will be on display at the center for at least two months. Two Eagle River School photographers and other photography students from four cities around North ...
People driving south on U.S. Highway 93 outside of Missoula will pass a billboard with the word “Missing” in prominent letters next to a picture of a Salish woman. Jermain Austin Charlo was last seen on June 16 in Missoula, according to the information on the billboard. The Dixon reside...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Jon Tester’s bill to help address the missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic unanimously passed the Senate Thursday night, just a few weeks after the Senate Indian Affairs Committee unanimously voted to send Savanna’s Act to the Senate floor. The bill...
News from Lights Under the Big Sky RONAN – Elves have been sawing, sanding, painting and planning in readiness for the holiday season. Nope, not Santa’s elves, the Lights Under the Big Sky elves. Lights’ first night will be Dec. 7 for its second year in operation. The Christma...
Retired Browning educator Larry Woolf spent 11 years as a teacher and 15 as a guidance counselor in public schools on the Blackfeet Reservation. He has seen, again and again, the devastating pain of teenage suicide. “Working in the schools, I’d gone to enough funerals for kids,” he said ...
