Podcast: Wrinkles in the Map

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, who grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation, is at once able to 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.

In this short introductory episode, host and director of the Ivan Doig Center Daniel Grant explains why we titled the podcast Wrinkles in the Map, and what you can expect to hear in future episodes.