Articles with the Tag: Salish
News from the Montana Ambassadors On Friday, Oct. 4, the Montana Ambassadors celebrated Frank Tyro, PhD, a pioneering television producer and professor, as the 2024 recipient of the Mike Malone Educator of the Year Award. This award is presented annually to a Montana educator who has demonstrated out...
News from the Arlee CDC ARLEE — The Arlee Community Development Corporation recently debuted a new art exhibit featuring works by Native artists Aspen and Cameron Decker, and Jeneese Hilton. Their works explore themes of myth, tradition and culture expressed in a variety of creative media. Jene...
What do a retired businessman, Miss Montana Teen USA, Miss Montana USA, a forester, a fifth-generation Native-American Salish woman, and an MSU sophomore all have in common? We live in Montana, vote, and volunteer with the nonpartisan Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL). We’re focused on solving cli...
RONAN — On Thursday, Sept. 21, Mission Valley United Methodist Church invited the community to attend a celebration of International Peace Day, a global event endorsing non-violence and harmony. Last year Clarise Wittenger, from the Mission contingent of the church, encouraged the creation and dedic...
This collection of documents includes talks or petitions by Salish and Kootenai chiefs found in the surviving historical record. The Salish and Kootenai Indians of the Flathead Indian Reservation confronted many crises in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The physical and cultural survival o...
ARLEE — The 123rd Arlee Esyapqenyi (Celebration) wrapped up this week on July 4 after days of celebration, remembrance and dancing. The celebration was initially banned by the U.S. government in 1890, but a few years later the Tribe named it as a Fourth of July Celebration, and thus it was all...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION — The Missoula Writing Collaborative (MWC) has spent the last two weeks in schools throughout Flathead Reservation bringing a special program to kids to celebrating Salish ledger art, poetry, and history. A nonprofit organization, the MWC began 12-week writing residencies with e...
News from the Missoula Art Museum MISSOULA – The Missoula Art Museum is proud to announce that Cameron Decker will be the new Educator and Outreach Coordinator. This position supports the educational vision for the museum and is responsible for developing a program of art education that compliment...
News from Want and Able Arts Consulting TORONTO — Polson filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney will be screening her film Daughter of a Lost Bird virtually at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival on Sunday, Oct. 24. The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, based in Toronto, Ontario, is the w...
News from the Missoula Writing Collaborative MISSOULA — The Missoula Writing Collaborative has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support “Young Voices of the Mission Mountains”: Creative Writing Residencies on the Flathead Reservation of the Confe...
