<div dir="ltr">Montana Wilderness Association invites you to join their Shining Mountains Chapter for a showing of the film <span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">“In the Spirit of ʔAtatíc̓eʔ: the Untold Story of the National Bison Range.” </span>
<span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">The film recounts how the unthinkable came to pass in the nineteenth century as buffalo, slaughtered to the edge of extinction, began to fade from the landscape until a Ql̓ispé (Pend d’Oreille) man named ʔAtatíc̓eʔ and his son Ɫatatí helped the bison survive by bringing buffalo calves over the Continental Divide and starting a herd on the Flathead Indian Reservation. In the face of devastation, these men did what they could and made a world of difference for everyone.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Following the film, </span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Brian Upton and Shane Morigeau, members of the CSKT, will be hosting a Q&A discussion. Brian Upton is a Tribal Attorney with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Legal Department, where he has worked since 2003. </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Shane Morigeau is a citizen of the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai Tribes, where he works as a Tribal Attorney for the CSKT
Legal Department.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Shane is also a
Montana State House Representative for his district in Missoula.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Shane earned his J.D. from the University of
Montana and his L.L.M. from the University of Arizona.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">This is a FREE event but please RSVP at: </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-the-spirit-of-ataticethe-untold-story-of-the-national-bison-range-tickets-86734181271?aff=ebdssbeac" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:blue">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-the-spirit-of-ataticethe-untold-story-of-the-national-bison-range-tickets-86734181271?aff=ebdssbeac</a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Thank you!</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Steffane Prestidge</span></div></div>