Articles with the Tag: Salish

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...

POLSON – Jeri Rafter and Brook Swaney both grew up in Polson, and they’re headed back to their hometown to look for support in their newest film project.  The filmmaking team has finished filming the documentary “Daughter of a Lost Bird” and is fundraising for the costs of fin...

ST. IGNATIUS – “That’s the biggest family picture,” an onlooker said as the attendees at the 2019 Salish Language and Culture Camp gathered for a group photo.  The last day of the weeklong day camp had the feeling of a family reunion. People of all ages gathered in small group...

Debra Magpie Earling’s novel, “Perma Red,” tells the story of Louise White Elk, a strong-willed Salish woman navigating love and heritage on the Flathead Reservation.  The story is built around the landscape of the Mission Valley and the true history of Earling’s family. &ldqu...