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Worn History: The Biography and Value Transformation of Emma Sansaver\u27s Dress
Get PDFThis thesis examines the life of Emma Sansaver’s beaded buckskin dress as both a material object and a cultural witness. Worn during her time at the Fort Shaw Government Industrial Indian Boarding School and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the dress intersects with assimilationist policy, Indigenous resilience, public spectacle, and personal memory. Unlike the regalia of her teammates, Emma’s dress was preserved, first by Emma herself, then by her descendants, and continues to be cared for and displayed in educational and institutional settings today.
Using the theoretical frameworks of Arjun Appadurai and Igor Kopytoff, this project approaches the dress through its shifting regimes of value and cultural biography. Its meaning and function have changed over time, moving from performance regalia to cherished heirlooms to museum artifacts, each stage marked by acts of preservation, reinterpretation, and reclassification. Through historic sources, family history, and conservation records, this study follows the dress’s path to ask what it has come to represent for Emma’s family and broader conversations around Indigenous history and material culture. Through the dress, this thesis foregrounds the ways in which objects can hold, carry, and transform meaning across generations. Emma’s Dress is not simply what remains; it is part of an ongoing relationship between people, place, and history. As both subject and storyteller, the dress offers insight into how survival, care, and identity continue to unfold through material forms
Protect the Clearwater v. Montana Department of Environmental Quality
Get PDFIn Protect the Clearwater v. Montana Department of Environmental Quality, the Montana Supreme Court reinforced that injunctive relief provisions in the Montana Environmental Protection Act are the exclusive avenue for injunctive relief once a claim has been filed under MEPA. The Court clarified that parties may not separately seek preliminary injunctions under Montana’s general injunction statute when a MEPA action contesting the same permit is already pending
Inner Dimensions
No full text“Inner Dimensions” is a choreographed dance piece that is collaborative and process-based about the connection between our inner consciousness and the outside world. This piece is about how living in the world with mental health, addiction, and trauma feels isolating and disconnected. To showcase this, I wanted to focus on the fact that life is about the journey rather than the destination. So often in our outside world, we have to conform to standards and norms that do not feel reachable when individuals have struggles that prevent them from fully achieving what is expected. This piece hopes to shed light on the system that we have created that is fully product focused, about what you can produce, rather than what occurred along the way.
The outcomes of this project were to provide rehearsal sessions that are collaborative with the dancers and present the piece at Dance on Location on October 5th and 6th at the University of Montana. These sessions were interactive and involved the dancers in the process of creating the dance piece. I facilitated each session in an organized and also fluid way. This looked like starting out the sessions with a guided body scan meditation to allow participants to come into their bodies. It then moved into check-ins about how they are feeling and what is present in their life, followed by moving into choreographing the dance piece. I designed my piece so that each dancer can bring in their own experiences to express themselves through the art of movement. It allowed for the individuals to move through and alchemize their experiences in a safe and healthy way. After working together, the sessions wrapped up with designated time for reflection. This looked like participants drawing, journaling, and verbally sharing how their experience was and what came up for them.
This project’s importance is to call out that holding space for process-based experiences is not only beneficial but necessary. If we want to move forward in a society that holds space for all individuals, especially those struggling, we can help by shifting focus on the importance of creation for the act of creating, experiencing for the experience, and living for life itself, rather than merely for an achieved result or product
EQUILIBRISENSE: A BIO-INSPIRED MULTIMODAL PLATFORM FOR QUANTITATIVE MONITORING OF VESTIBULAR PERCEPTION
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GLI Weekly, January 28, 2025
Get PDFAttention Sophomores: Spring Advising -- Experiential Learning Scholarship -- Franke GLI application opens Saturday, February 1st -- Franke GLI in the news -- NEW Leadership Program: Montana NEW Leadership -- Free Event: Mansfield Dialogues presents The U.S.-Japan Alliance in a Turbulent Era with Sheila A. Smith -- Film Screening: Counted Out -- Scholarship Opportunity: European Studies Summer School, University of Pecs, Hungary -- Study Abroad Opportunity: Spain, Morocco and Cub
Voices of Trade with Brian Cebull
Get PDFIn the first episode of our new Voices of Trade miniseries, Justin speaks with Brian Cebull, CEO of GTUIT, an energy company based in Billings focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They discuss GTUIT’s innovative approach to mitigating natural gas flaring, the company’s expansion into international markets, and the challenges of conducting global business from Montana.
In the lead up to the Montana World Trade Center’s World Trade and Investment Day, our Voices of Trade miniseries will be exploring the various opportunities and challenges facing Montana firms doing business internationally.
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Fiscal Policy of the Associated Students of the University of Montana as of February 25, 2025
Get PDFFiscal Policy of the Associated Students of the University of Montana as of SB19 - Revising Section 28 of the ASUM Fiscal Policy