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Evening
$8 tickets @ The Roxy Theater
7 p.m. — Paving The Way (documentary short)
followed by Jeff Ament and Debra Magpie Earling in conversation
8 p.m. — Winter in the Blood
with special guests
(tickets available for purchase at theroxytheater.org)
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Evening
FREE @ Missoula Children’s Theater
7 p.m. — Opening Remarks: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
8 p.m. — Keynote: Heather Cahoon, Riding the Earthboy 40 at 55
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Morning
FREE @ Missoula Art Museum
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Debut Fiction Panel: Jon Hickey, Kyle Edward, Mariah Rigg
Afternoon
FREE @ Missoula Art Museum
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. — Nonfiction Panel: Paul Chaat Smith, Elissa Washuta, Byron Aspaas
Evening
FREE @ Missoula Art Museum
5:30 p.m. — Introduction: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
6 p.m. — Keynote: Beyond the Native Renaissance, Jake Skeets
FREE @ Radius Gallery
7:30 - 9 p.m. — Reception
Special Event @ 8 p.m. — Lois Welch reading
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Morning
FREE @ Missoula Children's Theater
9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. — Blackfeet Visual Artist Panel: John Pepion, Terran Last Gun, Evelyn Mikayla Martin
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Tribal Sovereignty Panel: April Youpee-Roll, Evan Thompson, Monte Mills
Afternoon
FREE @ Missoula Children's Theater
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. — Native Horror with Stephen Graham Jones
Evening
FREE @ Missoula Children's Theater
7 p.m. — Closing Remarks: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
7:30 p.m. — We Talk, You Listen (featuring Arthur Sze, dg nanouk okpik and Sherwin Bitsui)
July 15-18, 2026 / Missoula, Montana
“Jim knew Indians were expected to fail. It's long been the national myth. Indians weren't considered by white people to have the capacity for 'civilized' success. They were not supposed to have incurred permanent damage from the massacres, starvation, boarding schools and other degradations during the period between meeting and being reservationed by the white man. Instead, they were supposed to assimilate, disappear, stop being a problem. Jim was himself a living example of the counter-narrative to the expectation set by that story: he lived a life that could be considered successful by any standard. But that success wasn't in spite of his Blackfeet heritage, it was because of it. He was a successful Indian writer — but he wasn't assimilated into anonymity."
— Lois Welch