Counting Coups, an Eyewitness Account from the 1800s BY RICHARD IRVING DODGE All the religious dances embody the same idea, and are conducted upon much the same general principle as the great camp-meetings of some of our Christian denominations. The time and place are fixed by the medicine man, and ample notice given. The "scalp dance," is next to the medicine dance in … [Read more...]
Yellowstone Whistleblower Attracts Federal Investigators
Office of Inspector General Asks Victims and Witnesses to Call Hotline: 800-424-5081 BY DAVID S. LEWIS As the direct result of a news report published in The Montana Pioneer in September about a Scandal in Yellowstone National Park, various federal investigations were alerted to alleged misconduct in Yellowstone National Park and directed investigators to interview the … [Read more...]
Scandal in Yellowstone
National Park Service Centennial Blackened By Disturbing Allegations BY DAVID S. LEWIS 9/07/16 The National Park Service, as it celebrates its 100th anniversary, has been plagued by documented cases of sexual exploitation of employees in the Grand Canyon, as boatman allegedly coerced and forced themselves upon female workers. Now NPS faces new allegations that … [Read more...]
How Clinton Campaign and DNC Colluded Against Bernie Sanders
How the Hillary Clinton Campaign and DNC Colluded Against Bernie Sanders BY MARGOT KIDDER 7-25- 16 Collusion between the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee allowed Hillary Clinton to buy the loyalty of 33 state Democratic parties last summer. Montana was one of those states. It sold itself for $64,100. The Super Delegates now defying … [Read more...]
When Donald Trump Calls, Guess Who’s All Ears
Top Establishment Figure Repeatedly Drops What He's Doing to Take the Donald’s Calls BY DAVID S. LEWIS 04/12/16 We learned months ago, and it was recently confirmed, that when Donald Trump brags about knowing establishment politicians, and that they “love” him, he isn’t kidding. Trump’s net worth being whatever it is, he has spread a good deal of it all across the … [Read more...]
Bison Tearing Up Private Property
Where Do the Buffalo Roam? Ask Bill Hoppe BY PETER J. RYAN 08-15-15 Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam; Where the deer and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word; And the sky is not cloudy all day. —My Western Home, Dr. Brewster Higley (1873) When Brewster Higley penned the poem that would later become the Western anthem Home on the … [Read more...]
To Trap a Wolf
Time Honored Tradition, or Cruel and Inhumane? BY LISA BARIL 09/06/14 A deep chesty bawl echoes from rimrock to rimrock, rolls down the mountain, and fades into the far blackness of the night…Every living thing (and perhaps many a dead one as well) pays heed to that call. To the deer it is a reminder of the way of all flesh, to the pine a forecast of midnight scuffles … [Read more...]
The Sage Grouse Solution
States Proving More Practical Than Feds at Protection BY CARL GRAHAM/BRIAN SEASHOLES 08/06/14 Add one more potential victim to the catalog of high-profile species likely to be harmed by the Endangered Species Act. The sage grouse, a large ground-dwelling bird that inhabits 165 million acres in eleven Western states, including Montana, appears headed for listing under the … [Read more...]