Land Grab Podcast

25/05/2022

Chapter Seven: Making Checkers is out today. As the Flathead Reservation is prepared for allotment and opened for settlement, every facet of the Missoula community jostles to make a buck, and the tribes fight to hold on to every scrap of what they have left.

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17/05/2022

On May 17, 1904, 118 years ago today, 5,000 Missoulians packed the Courthouse lawn to welcome Freshman US Congressman Joseph M. Dixon back to his adopted hometown for the first time since the passage of Dixon's Flathead Allotment Act a few weeks earlier.

The Flathead Allotment Act, which forcibly opened the nearby Flathead Indian Reservation to white settlement under the homestead act, was staunchly opposed by the tribes on the Flathead; but among the white community in Missoula, it was almost inconceivably popular.

At Dixon's big return home, thousands of people packed downtown to show their support and Missoula decked itself out in the red, white, and blue. When Dixon took the stage at the courthouse to address the revelers, he was greeted with a five minute standing ovation.

This celebration was the front-facing capstone to the allotment push. But the journey Dixon, and his political backers in the Missoula Mercantile, had taken in the previous years to pass the bill and prepare the reservation for opening was done in secret, out of the public eye.

Learn the whole story in Land Grab Chapter Six: Savage Habits, available now wherever you get your podcasts:

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05/05/2022

112 years ago this week, the Flathead Reservation was forcibly opened by a Presidential Proclamation under the provisions of the Flathead Allotment Act.

26/01/2022

The coming of the Northern Pacific Railroad was the pivotal factor in turning Montana from a frontier to a territory, and the shadowy corporate partnerships that formed to lay the track spawned the region's first ruling class.

Learn more in our second chapter: The Big Deal

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12/01/2022

The full first part of Land Grab is out now wherever you get podcasts!

Chapter One: Foreign Country goes through MT's precolonial history from the Ice Age to Lewis and Clark to the Hellgate Treaty

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29/12/2021

Chapter Five: The Missoula Octopus out now!

The State Capital and the University are up for grabs and Andrew Hammond wades in on Missoula's behalf, making a few mortal enemies along the way.

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21/12/2021

On the latest episode of Land Grab: one of the most important, but least talked about events in Missoula history- the forced removal of the Bitterroot Salish

17/12/2021

Chapter 4 out now:

30 years after the Hellgate Treaty, and 20 years after the forged Garfield Agreement, the Bitterroot Salish were finally pushed out of their homelands in the valley on October 15, 1891

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10/12/2021

Chapter three is out now and goes deep into the illegal timber monopoly called the Montana Improvement Company that was formed in the 1880’s by some of the territory’s biggest oligarchs

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08/12/2021

Chapter 3 is out now! In this episode, the Salish continue to get squeezed out of the Bitterroot

And the Montana Improvement Company enacts a “gigantic” conspiracy that ends in one of MT’s most scandalous elections

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30/11/2021

Chapter Two is out now! In this episode: a future President forges a removal agreement with the Salish in the Bitterroot, and a lowly Missoula store clerk strikes the most important business deal in Montana history

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29/11/2021

Chapter Two drops tomorrow as the Northern Pacific comes to town…

23/11/2021

Land Grab starts today! Just in time for Thanksgiving our first chapter focuses on the precolonial history of Western Montana and the circumstances that led to the formation of the Flathead Reservation

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30/10/2021

22/09/2021

Hey y’all! We’re working hard to get a banger of a first season out to ya as soon as it is ready. Here a lil something to whet your appetite

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16/08/2021

Happy Monday!

03/08/2021

If you're interested in the work we're doing and think it's valuable, please consider making a contribution to our production.

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03/08/2021

This letter from John goes into more detail about the intentions behind the podcast, and our aims for the future. Give it a read!

https://www.landgrabpodcast.com/blog/the-last-of-the-last-best-place

“Having lost so much, how can we keep the little that is left? This is the unspoken fear behind public policy debate in Montana, from concerns about protecting the wilderness, the water, and the air to promoting free enterprise, economic development, trade, and growth.” -Mary Clearman Blew Front...

29/07/2021

Our first introductory episode is out now on the streamers! We lay out the premise of the show and explain how Montana's current housing crisis fits into a long, historical cycle.

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28/07/2021

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‎Society & Culture · 2021

28/07/2021

People are flooding into Montana from across the country, and locals are really mad about it. But if you want to fully understand why, you need a serious history lesson.

Listen to Land Grab: a podcast about the place we call Montana now! Find more at landgrabpodcast.com