Fifty Years Of Leadership In Indian Country- Earl Old Person – Missoula – 2/19

2004-02-19 19:30:00
Gallagher Business School Room 122. University of Montana – Missoula

Earl Old Person, chief of the Blackfeet Nation since 1978, will lecture at The University of Montana on Thursday, Feb. 19. He will present “Fifty Years of Leadership in Indian Country” at 7:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 122.

The event is the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West’s 10th Annual Native American Lecture, and it will be held in conjunction with UM’s Charter Day festivities. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Old Person has met and been acknowledged by all U.S. presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, as well as the English royal family and Canadian prime ministers.

From 1969 to 1971 he was president of the National Congress of American Indians, one of the oldest national organizations representing tribal interests. He also was honored with the Jeannette Rankin Civil Liberties Award in 1998 from the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana.

Old Person is a current member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, and under his longstanding leadership the Blackfeet have constructed a community college, an industrial park, housing developments, tourist facilities and a community center. He also threw his enthusiastic support behind the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning and development of a tribal buffalo herd.

For more information, call the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West at (406) 243-7700. CRMW is UM’s regional studies and public policy center.