Dawn Quigley, the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe author of the YA novel "Apple in the Middle," is fond of saying that there are many ways of being Native. Susan Devan Harness' moving memoir, "Bitterroot," ...
At Salish School of Spokane, students from 1 to 13 are immersed in n̓səl̓xčin̓, known as the Colville-Okanagan Salish language, learning alongside their teachers and families.
Rose Bear Don’t Walk is a longtime resident of the Flathead Reservation and is a descendant of the Bitterroot Salish and Crow tribes. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale ...
HAMILTON, Mont. - Bitterroot College, with Humanities Montana, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, began a cultural dialogue with the community of Hamilton. It stems from a controversy ...
To the Bitterroot Salish, the Missoula Valley in 1865 offered no more and no less than it had since time immemorial. "Where the university is at was a favorite campground," said Louis Adams, a Salish ...
STEVENSVILLE — Casey Ryan and Gary Three Woodcocks held the leader staff high as they walked past St. Mary’s Church in Stevensville, past dozens of ornate, personalized headstones and toward a large ...
Jun. 8—"The Art of Primitive Survival: Native American Tools and Techniques," a movie made by Buck and Rose Hitswithastick of Arlee with support from the Montana Council of the Arts, debuted at the ...
And those grasslands would have needed replenishing, which the Salish continued to effect with regular firing. But so vast were the Bitterroot prairies of two centuries ago, and so few the Salish and ...
THREE FORKS, Mont. — Missouri Headwaters State Park's speaker series will feature two events focusing on Indigenous education. The first event features Lailani Upham, a Amskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet ...
Indigenous languages once considered nearly extinct could be heard echoing through the halls of Northern Quest Resort and Casino this week. Small children called out to parents, and friends hailed one ...