Free Grant-Writing Workshop in Lame Deer, MT, September 18, 2024
Humanities Montana is partnering with Woodenlegs Library, on the campus of Chief Dull Knife College in Lame Deer, to host a free grant-writing workshop for community members. The workshop will take place on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, and online registration is appreciated. Refreshments and lunch will be provided, and space is limited to 20 attendees.
The grant-writing workshop offers guidance and resources needed to develop strong grant proposals. The workshop will also provide a general overview of current grants and opportunities with Humanities Montana and time for attendees to discuss ongoing or new projects in the community.
In addition to the workshop, community members are welcome to participate in a discussion with Humanities Montana about experiences with the humanities and exploring ways in which the humanities can provide meaningful support for community building and cross-cultural understanding.
The workshop and listening session are part of the United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture initiative funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture supports humanities programming that fosters cross-cultural understanding, empathy, and community resilience; educates the public on the history of domestic extremism and hate-based violence; promotes civic engagement, information literacy, and social cohesion through strategic partnership, community-building, and ongoing public engagement; and/or deepens public understanding of and contextualizes community, state, and national history.
United We Stand Scholars
The United We Stand: Connecting Through Culture initiative, funded through the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), supported the ongoing work of five Montana researchers and development of three public presentations to deepen public understanding of and contextualize the histories of Black, Japanese, Mexican, and Native communities across the state.
Anthony Wood, Ph.D., author of Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877–1930, is developing public presentations about Montana and the West’s early outdoors and wilderness cultures; Montana’s history of race and legislation, specifically around the early 20th century, and their effects on communities of color around the state; and a history of Montana’s August Fourth Emancipation Day, which commemorated a distinctly Western Black/Native freedom narrative that shaped the collective memory of Black Montanans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. Wood will share his research in a forthcoming episode of the Extreme History Project’s The Dirt On The Past Podcast and during a presentation coordinated through the Montana Historical Society in October.
Micah Chang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at MSU, is conducting research for the first two chapters of his new book project, “American Crops for American People: Statist Agriculture, Race, and Environment on the Northern Great Plains.” His research explores wheat agronomy and the creation of an “American” crop and uncovers the marginalized histories of Japanese and Mexican peoples in Montana. This month, Dr. Chang led a lecture and discussion of the history of Montana’s Japanese and Mexican communities at the MonDak Heritage Center in Sidney.
Independent scholar Mark Ratledge, former president of Blackfeet Community College Carol Murray, and former instructor of Pikuni Studies at Blackfeet Community College Lea Whitford have been identifying and interviewing Blackfeet descendants of survivors of the 1870 Baker Massacre of the Blackfeet in North Central Montana. Their research involves gathering histories from the Montana Blackfeet and from individuals from Blackfoot Confederacy tribes in Canada. The collection of stories and histories will provide a unique Blackfeet perspective of the event. Mark, Carol, and Lea will lead a presentation at the Blackfeet Community College library in September.
Humanities Montana is honored and grateful to support the research and public programming developed by each scholar as a part of the United We Stand initiative.
Recent Awardees
Author Pete Fromm visits The History Book Club in Kalispell
Congratulations to our most recent grantee! To learn more about this inspiring organization and their project, visit our grants awarded webpage and check our events calendar for details about upcoming grantee events.
Big Sky Reads
History Book Club, Northwest Montana History Museum, Kalispell, MT, $500.
The History Book Club began in 2006 as a way for community members to explore Western history and gather to discuss literary themes, people, places, and culture. The book club is open and free to the public.
The History Book Club gathers at the Northwest Montana History Museum in Kalispell’s oldest public building (the old “Central School”) on the first Wednesday of the month from 2 to 3 p.m., except for a summer break in July and August.
For more information, contact Amy Drown, at 406-756-8381 option 5, or visit https://www.nwmthistory.org/programs/history-book-club/.
