by Nikki Rajala | Jun 10, 2020 | Featured
In growing up, Bigfork’s tiny public library had one shelf of biographies for youth, jacketed in red and yellow, illustrated with black and white drawings. After finishing the life stories of all the women (maybe 7 total), I kept on, reading about men like Lewis...
by Nikki Rajala | Feb 27, 2020 | Voyageur
Though I’m not much of a betting person, I’ve put money into raffles, Superbowl boards, pay stub poker pots and lottery tickets — and won! Most of us enjoy taking a chance on occasion. While casinos are a relatively new phenomena in the Native American...
by Nikki Rajala | Mar 24, 2019 | Featured
Peter Pond, a larger-than-life voyageur, is a visionary in the fur trade. Unfortunately, he’s also responsible for the deaths of three men. Death wasn’t uncommon back then, but murder was rare. And three of them? That marred his continuing in the fur...
