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"Of Woods and Water: Negotiating Natural Resources
on the Blackfeet and Flathead Reservations, 1900-1945" |
Garrit Voggesser |
Garrit Voggesser, the 2003 Bernard L. Majewski Fellow, is currently
a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Oklahoma and is completing
his dissertation which studies the use of natural resources on Montana's
Indian reservations. From the 1880s to 1930s whites intruded on the
reservations in the areas of mining, timbering, recreation, and fuels.
By studying these natural resource incursions of non-Indians upon tribal
lands, Voggesser will determine how life in Montana, and in the West in
general, changed after 1900.
His lecture, "Of Woods and
Water: Negotiating Natural Resources on the Blackfoot and Flathead Reservations,
1900-1945," was presented on Friday November 14, 2003, in the
Wyoming Stock Growers' Room at the American Heritage Center.
The Majewski Fellowship honors the late petroleum industry pioneer Bernard
L. Majewski and is awarded annually to an outstanding scholar to conduct
research in AHC collections.
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