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At exhibits, ceramicist Frances Senska kept her artist’s statement simple: “I make pots.”
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Dr. Chantanelle Nava searches the galaxy for exoplanets, rocky planets like ours that could host life. She uses the colors and movements of light as clues to find and measure planets.
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“Our language, we want to see it move with our children, with our grandchildren, and our great-grandchildren. To be a vehicle for all the ways that we have lived all these millennia,” Janine Pease says.
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Influenced by her supportive parents, who welcomed everyone, and the social transformations of the Sixties, Diane Sands at a young age began challenging deep-set prejudices around her regarding gender and race
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Rose Gordon was born in White Sulphur Springs in 1883 to former slave Mary Goodall and African-Scottish cook John Gordon. When she died, community leaders carried her coffin and the newspaper celebrated the impact and courage.
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Getting electricity to rural areas was a difficult feat in the 1930s. Anna Boe Dahl took up the challenge and in turn eased some of the burdens women faced.
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In the late 1900's Butte had tremendous need for more medical doctors. Caroline McGill, witnessing this, decided to become a medical doctor. For 40 years, she treated everything from knifings and venereal disease to the most common thing, mining accidents.
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Around 1892, two new entities serendipitously collided. One was Fort Shaw Indian School west of Great Falls. The other was the sport of basketball.
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Fannie Sperry Steele raised thoroughbreds, worked in Wild West shows and competed in rodeos, winning firsts and setting records, especially in bronc riding.
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In the 1950s and 60s, membership in groups like the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women spiked in Montana. Both groups promote, still today, non-partisan involvement by women in policy making and governance.