Directed by Dr. Sally Thompson. Ph.D. A western Native American perspective on how people communicated with each other long ago. LONG TIME AGO IN MONTANA is a 7-part series that focuses on 15 tribal educators and elders from nine different Native Tribes in Montana and Idaho. They share their perspectives on what it was like to live before modern conveniences, and how the traditions of long ago continue into modern times. ABOUT THE FILMMAKER Dr. Thompson has spent over thirty years working with native tribes of the West. She has worked as an archaeologist, ethnographer, and ethnohistorian. As founder of the Regional Learning Project, she oversaw a team of specialists with a focus on regional history, geography and culture, interviewing over 200 elders of 37 tribes and used the results to produce several documentaries and three websites. More recently, she worked with traditionalists from the Kootenai and Blackfeet tribes on a book about their traditional seasonal grounds through the Crown of the Continent, with a focus on Glacier National Park. PEOPLE BEFORE THE PARK is due out in 2014. Connect with the filmmaker, Sally Thompson - www.linkedin.com/pub/sally-thompson/8a/546/431 Follow THE MONTANA EXPERIENCE on facebook - www.facebook.com/themontanaexperience Subscribe to THE MONTANA EXPERIENCE here: www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Psw3TOXXGULurBj5mtofQ

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