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Wrinkles in the Map

Wrinkles in the Map

By: The Ivan Doig Center
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Summary

Each month, host Daniel Grant and guests take closer looks at the vast region we now call the North American West to change the way we see its cultures, histories, stories, and landscapes. In so doing, we consider the wrinkles in the maps we know--or think we know--for the wisdom they might reveal, the eccentricities that make us who we are, and the opportunity to reimagine the stories we tell. Wrinkles in the Map is produced by the Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands & Peoples of the North American West at Montana State University.

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Episodes
  • Megan Kate Nelson: New Tropes for Western Histories

    Megan Kate Nelson: New Tropes for Western Histories
    Apr 30 2026

    In this episode, award-winning writer and historian Dr. Megan Kate Nelson joins us to talk about why certain stories and icons depicting outdated ideas of the American frontier are so persistent in popular culture today despite having been widely critiqued within academia; what kinds of stories might replace such depictions; and why we should care about more honestly accounting for the diverse cast of historical figures whose interwoven lives profoundly shaped the nineteenth-century West.
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    56 mins
  • On Storied Ground: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain

    On Storied Ground: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain
    Mar 30 2026

    Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, who grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation, is at once able bring alive the distinctiveness of Blackfeet identity, culture, and what it means to belong to the land, while simultaneously evoking deeper truths at the heart of the human condition. Our conversation covers this dance between the particular and the universal, how language brings landscape into being, storytelling as an aesthetic object, the relationship between oral Blackfeet tradition and written narratives, and the role of art in transcending the self.

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    33 mins
  • Introducing Wrinkles in the Map

    Introducing Wrinkles in the Map
    Mar 4 2026

    In this short introductory episode, host Daniel Grant explains why we titled the podcast Wrinkles in the Map, and what you can expect to hear in future episodes.
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    5 mins
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