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Beaver, Bison, and Black Robes: Montana's Fur Trade, 1800-1860
Discusses how the demand for beaver pelts brought about a new economy, the shift from hunting beaver to hunting bison, and the impact of missionaries.
Chapter from Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes..
Buffalo Past and Present
Uses the Madison Buffalo Jump State Park as a starting point to discuss the buffalo's importance in the economies, cosmologies, social organization, and spiritual life of Indigenous peoples of the plains. Recommended for use with Grade 9-12 students.
From Dog Days to Horse Warriors: Montana's People, 1700-1820
Discusses the lifeways of Indigenous peoples of Montana just prior to contact and the impact that Europeans had on them.
Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.
Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity Among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains
Living Like a Wolf: Predation and Production in the Montana-Alberta Borderlands
Niitsitapiisini: Our Way of Life: The Story of the Blackfoot People
Observations on the Butchering Technique at a Prehistoric Bison-Kill in Montana
"Our Mountains Are Our Pillows": An Ethnographic Overview of Glacier Nations Park
Focuses on the K'tunaxa and Piikáni, and draws on documentary research and consultation with Piikáni Elders.
People of the Dog Days
Pre-contact history of Montana.
Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes.