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KIM BRIGGEMAN Missoulian MISSOULA (AP) — Gilbert Hategeka laughed as he told the story of himself. The heating unit in his new home in Missoula was quiet when Hategeka, his wife and their four young sons moved in after spending most of the previous 18 years in a refugee camp in Uganda. “I saw the heater but it wasn’t on, wasn’t working,” Hategeka said through a Swahili-speaking interpreter. “After about five days it just turned on and started vibrating. It vibrated the whole house.” Hategeka did what he and his wife, Chantal...
MISSOULA (AP) — The lightning-strike victims lay inert on a Glacier National Park trail late last Wednesday afternoon. "I was a little freaked out," Steven Keith recounted Monday of the scene on St. Mary Falls Trail. "I've never seen a dead body myself, other than in a casket." But while a woman he knows only as Beth began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation to Travis Heitman of Kalispell, Keith mustered up recollections of his last CPR brush-up a couple of years ago and went to work on Kensey Leishman, a Missoula n...
MISSOULA — Elouise Cobell had a way of sorting through complex Native American land ownership tangles and combing out what's right. It's part of the legacy the leader from the Blackfeet tribe left behind when she died in 2011, and one that still resounds with Terry Payne. "Elouise had a voracious appetite for justice, and she was an inspiration to me and so many other people," said Payne, a Missoula businessman whose family was the lead donor for construction of the Payne Family Native American Center on the University of Mon...
The focus on Louis Charlo, when there's a focus at all, is how he helped raise the first flag on Iwo Jima and how he died there. There is so much more to the story, and Jack Gladstone is determined to tell it. "This is a coming out of the bear's den for this grizzly," Montana's Native "PoetSinger" from Kalispell and the Blackfeet Indian Nation said last week. Gladstone is making an epic cut he calls "Remembering Private Charlo" into an 11-minute, 45-second centerpiece for his first new CD in seven years, one he's cal l ing...
