Storyteller Franco Littlelight will give a presentation on the history of the Crow People as part of the Montana Conversations series at Missouri Headwaters State Park on July 1, at 7 p.m. The presentation is called “Song of the Dawn Priests: A History of the Crow People” and is free and open to the public.

The history of the Crow People is closely tied to the Montana, Wyoming, Northern Colorado, and Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan landscape. Franco Littlelight shares this history through storytelling, song, poetry music and images. Using oral traditions, anthropology research and archaeological perspectives the origin story of the Crow People unfolds from the mythic wellspring to the separation from the Sioux and Hidatsa, from life along the Yellowstone to the separation from the Yellowstone valley marking the end of the Buffalo Days.

Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Montana’s Cultural Trust and private donations. It is also funded in part by coal severance taxes paid based upon coal mined in Montana and deposited in Montana’s cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund.

The park is located at 1585 Trident Road in Three Forks. Camp chairs and bug spray are encouraged. S’mores will be provided. For more information, call the park at 406-285-3610 or email alice.southworth@mt.gov.