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The Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic at UM has embarked on an ambitious project to create a digital archive of legal documents from each of Montana’s tribal nations.

The event featured top teaching artists from across the country and was backed by the Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child initiative.

Grizzly Esports at the University of Montana recently leveled up with its first team to win a video game college national championship.

In 1911, Montana Governor Norris issued a proclamation, “the first of its kind ever issued by a Montana governor, designating next Sunday (May 14th) as Mothers’ Day.”

Root Electric Company at 127 East Cedar (now Broadway) was displaying the Grebe Synchophase radio receiver. The Dickinson Piano Company featured the Zenith Long Distance radio, capable of picking up broadcasts from “as far as 1,500 miles away.” Even the H. O. Bell auto dealership on South Higgins offered the Radiola, priced from “$35 to $425 with convenient terms, if desired.”

Ah, the ability to turn lowly metals into gold. It’s called alchemy, and my pocketbook could use a massive infusion of it, today. Too bad it was discredited, once and for all, in the 19th century.

About one hundred years ago (Sunday, April 26, 1925 to be exact) Arthur L. Stone, the famed newspaper man and founding father of UM’s journalism school, penned a love letter to a pine tree. “High on the hip of Mount Jumbo stands ‘Sentinel Pine.’ Remote from its kind, this yellow pine overlooks the Hell Gate and the Missoula valley with a view unobstructed.”

A national organization recently named the University of Montana the No. 1 “Military Friendly” college in the United States.

Montana will be traveling to Denver for its first-round game of the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

Montana (25-9) soared past Northern Colorado (25-9) 91-83 for a Big Sky record extending 12th tournament title and the first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 2019.