Join us for an evening with Sally Thompson as she reads from her book, Disturbing the Sleeping Buffalo: 23 Unexpected Stories That Awaken Montana’s Past. November 6th at 6pm at Extreme History Headquarters located at 234 E. Mendenhall in downtown, Bozeman, MT. Books will be for sale at the event.

This event is FREE and open to the public, we just ask that you register via Eventbrite so we know how many to expect, please click here to register.

If Lewis and Clark returned to Montana today, they would find the landscape reassuringly familiar. The same would hold true for past generations of Kootenai, Salish, Crow, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, and Blackfeet. Even after thousands of years, some ancestors could still find their way to Sun River country, an ancient oasis of water and wildlife where the mountains and prairies meet.

The past still lingers along old trails, and among the people who live here today. Some, such as anthropologist and storyteller Sally Thompson, are better equipped to notice the traces of history lurking in place names and written in cairns, carved in tree bark, etched into prairie boulders, or resting among well-knapped spear points.

In Disturbing the Sleeping Buffalo, Thompson unearths new information and startling insights into Montana’s untold history in twenty-three true stories. Along the way, she shares the challenges of groundbreaking research and the joys of finding hidden treasures. These stories connect past and present, bringing into focus a common heritage among many peoples in an uncommon land.

Sally Thompson has worked as an archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnohistorian, filmmaker, educator, and as a tribal consultant and collaborator. Her narrative nonfiction writing focuses on the contrasting worldviews embedded in American history. Her 2015 book, People Before the Park, was a collaboration with the Kootenai Culture Committee and the Pikunni Traditionalist Association of the Blackfeet Tribe. While at the University of Montana (2001-2010), she interviewed over 250 tribal elders and educators and together they produced extensive curriculum materials for Montana teachers. In her new book Disturbing the Sleeping Buffalo: 23 Unexpected Stories that Awaken Montana’s Past, she brings readers along on her adventures in the field.

We look forward to seeing you on November 6th at 6pm at our Headquarters located at 234 E. Mendenhall in Bozeman, MT!