<![CDATA[Wrinkles in the Map]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/idc-wim 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.

]]> RSS.com 2026.428.112250 Thu, 28 May 2026 16:51:01 GMT en 49326287-2537-510e-beec-2ce856b6c70a https://media.rss.com/idc-wim/podcast_cover_20260427_100409_838141db920e5b193d65becdf0e7598d.jpg Wrinkles in the Map https://rss.com/podcasts/idc-wim yes The Ivan Doig Center 2026 The Ivan Doig Center The Ivan Doig Center false episodic podcast Montana State University, Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, 59715, USA false <![CDATA[Alexander Lemons: Restoring Landscapes, Healing from War]]> In 2010, after military tours at sea and in Iraq as a Marine and sniper, Alexander Lemons returned home to Utah and tried to integrate back into mainstream American society. But he found himself feeling profoundly isolated, and this feeling was intensified by family tragedy and a mysterious chronic illness from his years in combat. When the weight of his burdens felt too heavy, he sought solace in perhaps an unusual place: environmental restoration, nursing back to health ecosystems that had been degraded or chemically polluted. In this episode, our Spring 2026 undergraduate intern Riley Petersen interviews Alex about the seen and unseen tolls of war–and how recovery is both an inside and outside job.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/idc-wim/2866684 74caf9e3-1b33-492a-bf01-30a7d3c178c8 2926 full 1 1 3 3 false Thu, 28 May 2026 16:50:59 GMT false <![CDATA[Megan Kate Nelson: New Tropes for Western Histories]]> 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 Megan Kate Nelson joins us to talk about why certain stories and icons depicting outdated ideas of the American frontier are so persistent in popular culture today despite having been widely critiqued within academia; what kinds of stories might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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/idc-wim/2778151 ded5a587-d1e4-4c78-a4da-164d1c058541 3366 full 1 1 2 2 false Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:30:00 GMT false <![CDATA[On Storied Ground: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain]]> 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.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/idc-wim/2675090 76b77555-2ac4-4273-b2c8-92ca445cf865 1963 full 1 1 1 1 false Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:30:07 GMT Bozeman, Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, 59715, USA <![CDATA[Introducing Wrinkles in the Map]]> 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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