Presentations & Invited Lectures
“Re-visioning the West: Deep Mapping Non-White Montana.”
Montana Historical Society
Great Falls, Montana, 2024
(recording here)
“Black Montana: History and Place,” in Hidden Stories: Montana’s Black Past documentary film.
Montana PBS and Montana Historical Society, 2023
(trailer, with Dr. Hagen, here)
"Black Montana: Butte's African American Community."
Montana Historical Society
Butte, Montana, 2021
“Starting and Growing an Historical Research Business,”
National Council on Public History
Hartford, Connecticut, 2019
“The Noose and the Narrative: Links Between Mass Hangings of Borderlands Indigenes in Canada and the United States.”
Western History Association
St. Paul, Minnesota, 2016
“Indispensable Enemies: Needing and Hating the People in Between.”
Western History Dissertation Workshop
Yale University, 2015
“Violent Geographies: Landscapes of Indigenous Statelessness on the North American Great Plains.”
12th Global Interdisciplinary Conference on Violence
Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
“The Language of Limits and the Limits of Language: Linguistic Dilemmas in Writing Northern Plains Indian History.”
Canadian Studies Department luncheon lecture
University of California, Berkeley, 2011
“‘the seeming impossibility of separating them’: American Efforts to Define and Divide Montana’s Indigenous Populations,”
Montana Historical Society
Great Falls, Montana, 2009
“Nations, Migration, and Métis Subsistence Possibilities, 1860-1940,”
Race and Displacement: The 33rd University of Alabama Symposium on English & American Literature
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2009
“Nations, Migration, and Métis Subsistence Possibilities, 1860-1940,”
Common Ground, Converging Gazes: An International Conference Integrating the Social and Environmental in History
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2008
A draft of this unpublished paper was uploaded to Scribd.com, by unknown parties, as "Metis of Montana the Political Atmosphere"
“The Territory We Had Always Called ‘Home’”: Nations, Migration, and the Northern Plains Métis, 1880-1930,”
Writing New Histories of Indigeneity and Imperialism: A Workshop
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2008
“Nations, Migration, and the Montana Métis, 1827-1917,”
American Society for Environmental History
Boise, Idaho, 2008
“Nations, Migration, and the Montana Métis, 1827-1917,”
Historians for Lunch Lecture
University of Montana, Missoula, 2007
“Nations, Migration, and the Montana Métis, 1827-1917,”
American Society for Ethnohistory
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2007
Montana Historical Society
Great Falls, Montana, 2024
(recording here)
“Black Montana: History and Place,” in Hidden Stories: Montana’s Black Past documentary film.
Montana PBS and Montana Historical Society, 2023
(trailer, with Dr. Hagen, here)
"Black Montana: Butte's African American Community."
Montana Historical Society
Butte, Montana, 2021
“Starting and Growing an Historical Research Business,”
National Council on Public History
Hartford, Connecticut, 2019
“The Noose and the Narrative: Links Between Mass Hangings of Borderlands Indigenes in Canada and the United States.”
Western History Association
St. Paul, Minnesota, 2016
“Indispensable Enemies: Needing and Hating the People in Between.”
Western History Dissertation Workshop
Yale University, 2015
“Violent Geographies: Landscapes of Indigenous Statelessness on the North American Great Plains.”
12th Global Interdisciplinary Conference on Violence
Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
“The Language of Limits and the Limits of Language: Linguistic Dilemmas in Writing Northern Plains Indian History.”
Canadian Studies Department luncheon lecture
University of California, Berkeley, 2011
“‘the seeming impossibility of separating them’: American Efforts to Define and Divide Montana’s Indigenous Populations,”
Montana Historical Society
Great Falls, Montana, 2009
“Nations, Migration, and Métis Subsistence Possibilities, 1860-1940,”
Race and Displacement: The 33rd University of Alabama Symposium on English & American Literature
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2009
“Nations, Migration, and Métis Subsistence Possibilities, 1860-1940,”
Common Ground, Converging Gazes: An International Conference Integrating the Social and Environmental in History
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2008
A draft of this unpublished paper was uploaded to Scribd.com, by unknown parties, as "Metis of Montana the Political Atmosphere"
“The Territory We Had Always Called ‘Home’”: Nations, Migration, and the Northern Plains Métis, 1880-1930,”
Writing New Histories of Indigeneity and Imperialism: A Workshop
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2008
“Nations, Migration, and the Montana Métis, 1827-1917,”
American Society for Environmental History
Boise, Idaho, 2008
“Nations, Migration, and the Montana Métis, 1827-1917,”
Historians for Lunch Lecture
University of Montana, Missoula, 2007
“Nations, Migration, and the Montana Métis, 1827-1917,”
American Society for Ethnohistory
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2007