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Native America Speaks - Jack Gladstone & Rob Quist
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Fish Creek Campground Amphitheater, Lake McDonald ValleyDates & Times
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Members of the Blackfeet Nation and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes share personal knowledge of their history and culture as part of the Native America Speaks program.
This program began in 1982 and is the longest running Indigenous speaker series in the National Park Service. Native America Speaks is made possible by donations to the Glacier National Park Conservancy.
All park visitors welcome.
Limited parking space available.
Jack Gladstone is “Montana’s Troubadour.” An enrolled member of the Blackfeet Indian Nation, Jack is co-founder Glacier National Park’s “Native America Speaks” program, the longest continuously running indigenous speaker series in National Park Service history. Jack illustrates indigenous culture through music, lyric poetry, and storytelling. His most recent album, Native Anthropology, was honored as “Best Historical Recording” by the Native American Music Association. In 2013, he was presented with the C.M. Russell Heritage Award, recognizing his contributions “to the legacy, culture, life and country of Charlie Russell’s west.” In the same year, Jack founded “Blackfeet Headwaters Alliance”, a local non-profit conservation organization focused on watershed stewardship and conservation on and around the Blackfeet Reservation. Jack was inducted into the University of Washington’s Alumni Hall of Fame, for his “innovations in the field of Speech Communications.” As a scholar-athlete, Jack also was a member of the 1978 Rose Bowl championship team. In 2016, Jack Gladstone received the Governor’s Art Award from the State of Montana. At the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, in 2022, Jack was awarded, from the National Park’s Conservation Association, the prestigious Robin Winks Award “…For sharing and elevating the rich culture and history of Western land and peoples through art, storytelling and song.” In 2023, Jack was inducted into the Montana Music Hall of Fame.
Rob Quist is an award winning American singer songwriter and published poet, and has toured nationally and internationally for over five decades, releasing 16 CD's of mostly original music. He was lead vocalist and principal songwriter for the Mission Mountain Wood Band, labeled the best band ever to come from Montana, and later formed his own band "Rob Quist & Great Northern.
The major stars Rob has shared the stage with reads like a "Who's Who" in American music and his original songs have been recorded by Michael Martin Murphey and Loretta Lynn, to name a few.
His awards include:
- Nomination for "Best Country Voice" and Winner "Best Country Band" for the Nevada Music Awards;
- "Song of the Year" for the Texas Music Awards;
- “Governor's Award for the Arts" Montana.
- On March 31st Rob was inducted into the inaugural class of the “Montana Musicians Hall of Fame”
Quist has been saluted as "a celebrated Montana musician and composer who has captured the spirit of the West in his music, an evocative and versatile artist whose gift of song has touched the hearts of his countrymen, an elequent proponent of the history and beauty of the West whose legacy in song will be embraced by generations to follow.
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