Headwaters is a show about how Glacier National Park is connected to everything else. More
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Becoming | (Re)colonized
A young national park wages biological warfare and nature finds a way. This is a history of wolves in Glacier.
Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: https://www.instagram.com/esccarlson/ Behind the scenes pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmSxSe2J
Sign up for a Glacier Institute course: https://glacierinstitute.org/
5/24/2023
41:59
Becoming | A Destination
This is the history of how a corporation marketed Glacier National Park into existence. We use art to study how the Blackfeet took control of their own histories.
Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: https://www.instagram.com/esccarlson/ Behind the scenes pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmSxSe2J
See Winold Reiss’s Art: https://iacbmuseums-viewingroom.exhibit-e.art/viewing-room
5/17/2023
37:09
Becoming | Landowners
The twin stories of homesteading and allotment explored through baking and quilting analogies. How Euro-Americans came to settle inside the Glacier National Park and inside the Flathead Reservation.
Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: https://www.instagram.com/esccarlson/ Behind the scenes pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmSxSe2J
5/10/2023
53:09
Becoming | Forgotten Soldiers
Why doesn’t anyone remember the first rangers? We trace a Buffalo Soldiers expedition across the park and ask how history becomes preserved.
Yosemite’s A Buffalo Soldier Speaks Podcast: https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/historyculture/buffspodcast16-30.htm
Learn about African Americans in the National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/africanamericanheritage/index.htm
See more show notes on our website: https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/photosmultimedia/headwaters-podcast.htm
5/3/2023
42:29
Becoming | Empire Builders
The Great Northern Railway changed Northwest Montana forever. Who else but Americans could have built it?
Glacier Conservancy: https://glacier.org/headwaters Frank Waln music: https://www.instagram.com/frankwaln/ Eric Carlson art: https://www.instagram.com/esccarlson/ Behind the scenes pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmSxSe2J
The Empire Builder Documentary: https://greatnorthernfilmworks.com/