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This chapter contains information pertaining to what truly makes Montan special and acknowledges several significant people in Montana’s history including the “Copper King” of Butte, a scientist who created over 40 vaccines, and an activist who sued the U.S. Government and won.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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This chapter explores the distinct and unique culture of American Indians and the passing of the Indian Education for All (IEFA) law. This law introduced the Seven Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians into every school in Montana.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Montana in the Twentieth Century
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This chapter investigates homesteading, a movement that affected Montana history like no other, the difficult times that these homesteaders faced, and the even more difficult times that the Montana Indians faced during the evolution into the twentieth century.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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This chapter explains who the first people were to settle in Montana and why they came to live here, which revolved around both positive and negative factors, as well as the professions that inspired the growth of Montana.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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This chapter provides important information pertaining to the first people to live in Montana, providing details surrounding the early period, the middle period, the late period, and the contact period all leading up to the current tribes of Montana.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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This chapter describes the variety of geology, climate, and the three separate regions of Montana, along with introducing Montana’s tribal nations and reservations as well as the economy or business and jobs that keep Montana growing.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier
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In Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier, retired MTHS historian Dr. Ellen Baumler explores how painting, photography, literature, oral culture, and music have given us powerful incentives to visit Montana’s parks and preserve these majestic resources.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier
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In Tracing Artistic Memories and Mysteries of Yellowstone and Glacier, retired MTHS historian Dr. Ellen Baumler explores how painting,photography, literature, oral culture, and music have given us powerful incentives to visit Montana’s parks and preserve these majestic resources.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Two Historic Artists of Yellowstone National Park
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Writer Robert Nisbet talks about artists Walter Oehrle and Olive Fell in Two Historic Artists of Yellowstone National Park. Oehrle created advertising art for the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1920s and designs for the Old Faithful Inn in 1935. Fell produced refined etchings and whimsical postcards of park bears from the 1930s to the 1960s.…
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Horn Miller: The Toughest Man in Montana
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In Horn Miller: The Toughest Man in Montana, retired University of Texas at Austin instructor Fred Woody tells the story of Adam “Horn” Miller, a Cooke City prospector, storyteller, guide, scout, and all-around mountain man who began exploring Yellowstone in the 1860s.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Lost (and Found) in Yellowstone: The Truman C. Everts Story
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In Lost (and Found) in Yellowstone: The Truman C. Everts Story, author and storyteller Ednor Therriault shares the chilling story of Everts’s separation from his party in 1870 and how he survived alone in Yellowstone without his horse or supplies for thirty-seven days.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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The Tukudika, or Sheep Eater, Indians were a band of Mountain Shoshone who lived for thousands of years in the area that would become Yellowstone National Park. In his presentation, Nolan Brown shares the stories of his people and describes efforts at Fort Hall to preserve language and culture and encourage new research.…
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Comfort Stations, Restrooms, and Private Bathrooms in Yellowstone
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Architect Paul Filicetti explains the architectural impacts of bathrooming in the park in Comfort Stations, Restrooms, and Private Bathrooms in Yellowstone. Focusing on buildings such as Old Faithful Inn and the Lake Yellowstone and Mammoth hotels, he shows how changing modes of transportation impacted guest facilities.…
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Emil DonTigny: Pioneering Conservationist
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Since Lewis and Clark waxed poetic about the White Cliffs, the Upper Missouri River Breaks have captivated the American public. One central, though relatively unknown, figure in the establishment of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument was Emil DonTigny (1901–1969). In Emil DonTigny: Pioneering Conservationist, Montana History Foundati…
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National Park Service Rustic Architecture
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In National Park Service Rustic Architecture, Richard Brown shares the historyof “Parkitecture” as it relates to the prolific work of Bozeman architect Fred F.Willson. Willson designed 175 projects in and near Yellowstone between 1919and 1955.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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The Mighty Mo: America's Wilderness Waterway
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Upper Missouri River Breaks Monument manager Zane Fulbright in The Mighty Mo: America’s Wilderness Waterway, explores the evolution of the Missouri River from threatened resource to its status as a national monument.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Bozeman Prostitution and the Sociopolitical Landscape of the Early 20th Century
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In Bozeman Prostitution and the Sociopolitical Landscape of the Early 20th Century, Montana State University graduate student Maryrose Hicko introduces Mattie Hayes Rosenthal, a prostitute in Bozeman circa 1900–1920. The presentation reveals how Rosenthal’s life was shaped by social reform before and after World War I.…
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Montanans and the Politics of American Intervention in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1946
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University of Montana graduate student James Compton presents Mansfield, Marines, and Mothers: Montanans and the Politics of American Intervention in the Chinese Civil War from 1945 to 1946. At the conclusion of World War II, American citizens reasserted the democratic freedoms they had sacrificed to win the war. The American intervention in North …
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Packing for Yellowstone: Dress and Culture in the Worlds First National Park
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Yellowstone National Park Heritage and Research Center archivist Anne Foster explores what exactly one wears in a national park. Her presentation, Packing for Yellowstone: Dress and Culture in the World’s First National Park, combines historical photographs, audience participation, and reproduction clothing to explore the development of the active …
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Mining and Yellowstone National Park: The Jardine Mining District
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Industrial historian and retired Michigan Tech history professor Fred Quivik’s presentation, Mining and Yellowstone National Park: The Jardine Mining District, provides an expansive overview of mining at Jardine and put more recent regulatory controversies, including the hotly contested New World Mining District near Cooke City, in the context of e…
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The Rise and Fall of Corporate Sawmills in Montana
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In The Rise and Fall of Corporate Sawmills in Montana, retired MTHS Library manager Brian Shovers chronicles the history of Montana’s corporate timber industry and the many unpredictable forces that led to its demise.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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The Field Matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation, Progressive Era
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University of Montana PhD student Kymberly MacEwan has researched how field matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation visited families and instructed them in proper hygiene and “moral” lifestyles while providing varying forms of healthcare. In The Field Matrons on the Blackfeet Reservation, Progressive Era, she examines how the roles these women played …
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Who Were Montana's Early Women Physicians?
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In Who Were Montana’s Early Women Physicians? East Carolina University professor Dr. Todd Savitt offers a group biography and stories of several of the thirty-nine determined women who applied for medical licenses in Montana between 1889 and 1910.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Keeping Secrets: Montana's Do Not Publish Ethic and the Experience of Wildness
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Alpine climber and historian Jacob Schmidt explores the culture of secrecy among Montana’s alpine climbers in Keeping Secrets: Montana’s “Do Not Publish” Ethic and the Experience of Wildness. Through interviews with climbers and land managers and newly available archival information, he explores the origins of the “Do Not Publish” ethic and the las…
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Keeping the West Wild: The Genesis of Wildlife Conservation in Montana
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Montana can boast some of, if not the most, robust, diverse, and enviable fish and wildlife resources in the nation. In Keeping the West Wild: The Genesis of Wildlife Conservation in Montana, Michael Korn traces Montana’s long history of wildlife conservation, from the fur trade period into the twenty-first century, and the landmark efforts that br…
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The Beartooth Highway: A History of America's Most Beautiful Drive
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Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline shares exciting and colorful tales of The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive. Built during the height of the Great Depression and rising 10,947 feet above sea level, the Beartooth Highway sparked an economic boom in Red Lodge, Cooke City, and Yellowstone National …
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Willard Fraser: Montana's Mayor of All Outdoors
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In Willard Fraser: Montana’s “Mayor of All Outdoors,” author Lou Mandler discusses Billings mayor Willard Fraser’s many efforts to entice visitors to Montana. Fraser was instrumental in pursuing federal recognition for Pompeys Pillar and Pictograph Caves and promoting the state’s natural wonders.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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Yellowstone and many of the surrounding communities were deeply impacted by a historic flood in June 2022. Many roads, bridges, and trails were washed away, structures lost, and infrastructure crippled. In a strange symmetry, this area experienced a catastrophic flood in June, 1918. This talk with Yellowstone National Park historian Alicia Murphy h…
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Visualizing The Early Park: Digitizing Haynes's 1880's Yellowstone Photographs
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Between 1881 and 1891, photographer Frank J. Haynes made more than five hundred glass-plate negatives of Yellowstone for the Northern Pacific Railroad and his own photograph concession business. MTHS Photograph Archives manager Jeff Malcomson surveys Haynes’s 1880s work and explains the Montana Historical Society’s efforts to digitize the collectio…
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ITBC'S Reintroduction of the Buffalo
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Representing more than seventy tribes in twenty states, the Inter Tribal Buffalo Council (ITBC) has restored approximately 20,000 buffalo to nearly one million acres of tribal land. ITBC board member Jason Baldes will share how ITBC’s reintroduction of the buffalo has helped heal the spirit of both the Indian people and the buffalo.…
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The War of the Woods: Chinese Wood Choppers and Unlikely Allies, Montana 1880 - 1900
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University of Notre Dame associate professor Mark Johnson discusses the tensions in wood harvesting around Butte in the early 1880s in The War of the Woods: Chinese Wood Choppers and Unlikely Allies, Montana 1880–1900, sharing the story of a clash between Chinese and white woodsmen and the Butte constable who intervened.…
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Montana Women and Representations of Native Americans at the Chicago World's Fair
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Brigham Young University history professor Andrea Radke-Moss presents Our Citizens Don’t Think Much of the Indians: Montana Women and Representations of Native Americans at the Chicago World’s Fair. Through the stories of Eliza Rickards and Emma Cowan, shel examines how Montana women portrayed Indigenous people in 1893, focusing on their settler co…
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The Chief & the Celebration
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Chief Earl Old Person, Life-Time Chief of the Blackfeet Tribe, sat for an interview in 2002 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of North American Indian Days in Browning on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Norma Ashby interviewed Chief Old Person for KRTV of Great Falls as he commented on the meaning and celebrations of Indian Days, one of the lar…
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“White Man’s Buffalo”: The Growth of the Cattle Industry on the Flathead Indian Reservation
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Author and historian Bob Bigart explains how cattle exports from the Flathead Indian Reservation in the early twentieth century supported tribal members and made it possible for the tribes to avoid dependence on general rations from the federal government.MontanaHistoricalSociety tarafından oluşturuldu
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“What Is a Country without Horses?”
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University of Colorado PhD student Kerri Clement examines horse herd restoration efforts on the part of Crow Agency superintendent Robert Yellowtail. While Yellowtail concentrated on particular breeds and worked to obtain high-bred horses, this short-lived project reflects the longer and deeper history between Crow people and equines. Between 1875 …
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Inventing the “Gun That Won the West”: Early Winchester Rifles
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Retired MHS museum technician Vic Reiman begins with a short sketch of the development of black powder and firearms—going all the way back to China—and then concentrates on the first four models of lever-action rifles made by Oliver Winchester and their use by American Indians, settlers, and bad men on the western frontier.…
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Public Memory and Historic Preservation in Western Mining Museums
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As an integral and formative part of the Rocky Mountain West, mining helped shape public attitudes toward the land, labor unions, cultural and social mores, and community development. The ways in which mining history is preserved and presented does the same. Dr. Dayle Hardy-Short, professor of communication studies at Northern Arizona University, p…
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"If These Walls Could Speak": Examining Western Heritage and Ghost Tourism at Bannack
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Montana State University adjunct humanities faculty Dr. Dan Hanson examines how Bannack State Park utilizes haunting as a commercial attraction and historical teaching tool in its annual “Ghost Walk.” Understanding haunting’s functionality within this heritage site is important as Bannack continues to reflect and shape the real and imagined West.…
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The Great Explosion of 1895
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Shortly before 10:00 P.M. on the night of January 15, 1895, a watchman noticed smoke coming from the Kenyon-Connell Commercial Company warehouse and summoned the fire department. Unbeknownst to firefighters, other rescue workers, and curious onlookers, the burning building contained not only stoves, sheets of corrugated iron, pipes, coils of wire, …
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History of the Czechs in Montana and Elsewhere in the Northwest
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Beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, thousands dreamed of leaving Bohemia(then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) for the country of endless hope. They were driven by a vision of better living conditions and quick riches, as well as a desire to escape political, religious, and national oppression. In History of the Czechs in Mo…
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“Your Hands Are Bathed in Gold”: Pressures on Butte’s Chinese Residents, 1880s–1920s
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Mark Johnson, a fellow with the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, examines connections between Butte’s Chinese community and their relatives in southern China, a region beset by natural disasters and political upheavals that caused many to seek opportunities abroad. With these pressures from home combined with restri…
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Western Neoliberalism: Neoliberal Rhetoric in the Battle between Old West and New West
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Greg LeDonne—winner of Montana The Magazine of Western History’s 2021 emerging scholar contest—reviews how the Owyhee Cattlemen’s Association, a group of Idaho ranchers, employed neoliberal rhetoric in advocating for their use of public lands around and during the Rangeland Reform ’94 debate. LeDonne focuses on the way in which a national discourse…
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"Whose Space Is It Anyway?" Finding Room to Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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Diana Di Stefano, MHS editor and publications manager, looks at how five generations of ranchers in Wyoming have adapted to changing economic and environmental circumstances. She uses oral histories to explore themes of belonging, thoughts on tourism, real estate development, and the cattle industry.…
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Montana Tech and Women in Mining
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Scott Rosenthal, mining department head, and Shannon Panisko, Montana Tech Foundation director of annual giving, share stories of Clara Clark of Butte and Isabel Little of Baltimore, Maryland. In 1904, Clark and Little were among the first class of students to receive degrees from Tech’s new mining engineering department. Today, 25 percent of the d…
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More Than “Indian Princesses
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The Miss Indian America Pageant was held from 1953 to 1984 as part of Sheridan, Wyoming’s annual All-American Indian Days. In More Than “Indian Princesses,” recent Montana State University graduate Dr. Andi Powers explores the ways in which contestants served as important cultural ambassadors, participating in presidential inaugurations, appearing …
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A Brief History of the MHS Photograph Archives
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Jeff Malcomson takes the audience on a guided introduction to the MHS Photograph Archives by reviewing the repository’s development over the years and surveying several of its major collections. He shares dozens of photographs from these collections and also reveals current and future projects for the Photo Archives.…
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Tales of Whoop-Up Country
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Beginning in 1870, supplies, trade goods, immigrants, adventurers—and whiskey—traveled the now-legendary Whoop-Up Trail from Fort Benton to the eponymous Alberta trading post. In Tales of Whoop-Up Country, Great Falls historian and author Ken Robison relates how the absence of law and order forced the Canadian government to create the North-West Mo…
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Elizabeth Davey Lochrie: Artist, Ally, Mother
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Montana State University professor Dr. Mary Murphy details the story of Montana artist Elizabeth Davey Lochrie. From her home on Butte’s West Side, Lochrie crafted a life as artist, mother, clubwoman, and ally to Montana’s native peoples. A Western painter in the tradition of Charlie Russell, Lochrie is best known for her portraits of Native Americ…
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The Enigmatic Art of Voldemar Podder
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MHS senior curator Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney shares images and stories of artist Voldemar Podder. Podder—a physician who was displaced from his native Estonia during World War II—spent twelve years in various European refugee camps where he learned to paint. Always continuing his artwork, he immigrated to the United States in 1956, landing first i…
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The Pictures of Ella Mad Plume Yellow Wolf: Native American Photographer
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University of Montana environmental studies professor Dr. Rosalyn LaPier shares photographs by Ella Mad Plume Yellow Wolf. Yellow Wolf—who was LaPier’s great-aunt and whose images are now in MHS’s collection—documented life on the Blackfeet Reservation in the early 1940s, providing an intimate look at children and community, employment and work lif…
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