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Prairie Skyscrapers: Disappearing Artifacts of Central Montana’s Agricultural Landscapes
The History and Heritage Public Lecture Series and Preserve Historic Missoula teamed up to present “Prairie Skyscrapers: Disappearing Artifacts of Central Montana’s Agricultural Landscapes”. Kate Geer and Jared Schmitz, both with A&E Design, discussed the history and future of grain elevators throughout Montana.
MAS 2025 Keynote Address, Dr. Maria Nieves Zedeño: Billy Big Spring and the Blackfoot Early Origins Program
Dr. Maria Nieves Zedeño gave the keynote address at the 2025 meeting of the Montana Archaeological Society in Livingston, Montana on April 12. Her work with the Blackfoot Confederacy in collaboration with genomic researchers shows that “the genomics of sampled individuals from the Blackfoot Confederacy belong to a previously undescribed ancient lineage that diverged from other genomic lineages in the Americas in Late Pleistocene times.” During her talk, Dr. Zedeño described her work along with co-author Francois Lanoë in northern Montana at the Billy Big Spring site and the fascinating details of discovering evidence of the Blackfoot people in Montana and Canada during Pleistocene glacial times.
MAS 2025 Film Screening: The Life & Legend of John Colter
This film by geologist/filmmaker Daniel Smith was shown on day one of MAS 2025. Interpretive biologist and storyteller Ken Sinay who told the story in the film was available to discuss Colter’s legend and the sources including Lewis & Clark’s journals and other fur trapper journals from the early nineteenth century.
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