Land Grab is available wherever you get your podcasts! Take a deep dive into the untold history of colonization, land theft, and corporate control in Montana and the American West
If you enjoyed the pod, you’ll want to check out @bodiesbeneathus !! Promises to be a great companion piece digging into a resonant part of Missoula’s past 🤝
Land Grab is available wherever you get your podcasts! Take a deep dive into the untold history of colonization, land theft, and corporate control in Montana and the American West
At the historic St. Mary's Mission in Stevensville, a stark contrast separates the headstones of the marked Christian graves and the unmarked plot of indigenous burials.
Canadian timber mafias, evil corporate overlords, corrupt railroad deals, stolen elections, Socialist uprisings, centuries of indigenous resistance, and so much more all buried inside Land Grab. All episodes streaming now! Here’s a teaser:
A quote from researching the pod that has really stuck with me, from Chief Isaac of the Kootenai during the 1901 Hoyt Commission:
“46 yrs ago we made a deal with people who talked the same language you do… you had better hunt some people who want money more than we do.”
Just finished listening to @LandgrabPod. It’s an outstanding meditation on the dangers of nostalgia, poorly regulated capitalism and greed. I’m working on a book with similar themes. Thank you John Hook and Matt Neumann.
Land Grab is an investigative podcast that takes a deep dive into the secret legacy of the Missoula Mercantile Company in order to tell the untold history of colonization, land privatization, and corporate control in the American West.
Whole series available now!
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Council Grove, west of Missoula. Where, 167 years ago, in July, 1855, the Salish, Kootenai, & Pend d'Orielle signed the Hellgate Treaty with Territorial Gov. Isaac Stevens. The tribes were led to believe they were reserving an eternal sovereign homeland, the US had other ideas...
Dive into the untold history of indigenous land theft in Montana with Land Grab, whole series streaming now at https://t.co/7EgvdG2xiA or wherever you get your podcasts:
Council Grove, west of Missoula. Where, 167 years ago, in July, 1855, the Salish, Kootenai, & Pend d'Orielle signed the Hellgate Treaty with Territorial Gov. Isaac Stevens. The tribes were led to believe they were reserving an eternal sovereign homeland, the US had other ideas...
The Pope is in Canada this week on a "penitential pilgrimage", offering apologies to the indigenous nations who suffered from the Church's genocidal reeducation programs. In Montana, Catholics operated girls and boys boarding schools in St Ignatius from the 1880s until the 1970s
We cover the history of the Catholic Missionary presence on the Flathead, from the first arrival of the "Black Robes' in 1841 through to the height of the boarding school era in the mid-20th century over the course of our show, available at https://t.co/7EgvdG2xiA + podcast apps
The Pope is in Canada this week on a "penitential pilgrimage", offering apologies to the indigenous nations who suffered from the Church's genocidal reeducation programs. In Montana, Catholics operated girls and boys boarding schools in St Ignatius from the 1880s until the 1970s
The Helena, Great Falls, & Billings Diocese would relocate clergy who had been accused of abuse in other parishes on to reservation posts where scrutiny of their actions was much lower, enabling predators with unfettered access to new victims
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