December 6, 2019

Loren BirdRattler Named MSU’s Katz Endowed Chair in Native American Studies

Author: Anne James

BOZEMAN – Loren BirdRattler, a member of the Blackfeet Nation who coordinated the country’s first in-house indigenous agricultural resource management plan, has been appointed the Montana State University Katz Endowed Chair in Native American Studies.
BirdRattler will use his organizational development background to help lead an Indigenous Research Initiative that was formally introduced at MSU’s Tribal Partnerships event last month, according to Walter Fleming, head of MSU’s Department of Nativ