Keeping Chinese Culture Alive on the Western Frontier

Name: Keeping Chinese Culture Alive on the Western Frontier
Start: 2025-01-25T15:00:00-07:00
Location: 10 Fort Missoula Rd, Missoula, MT

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025 at 03:00 pm UTC-07:00

10 Fort Missoula Rd, Missoula, MT | Missoula

Publisher/HostThe Historical Museum at Fort Missoula

Keeping Chinese Culture Alive on the Western Frontier

From the earliest days of non-Native settlement of Montana, Chinese pioneers played a key role in the region’s development. Navigating life in this new land, Montana’s Chinese residents gained comfort through the continuation of their spiritual and cultural practices. Yet, publicly practicing cultural traditions invited unwanted attention from anti-Chinese forces who sought to expel the Chinese from the region. In this talk, Mark Johnson details how Chinese Montanans persevered to maintain cultural continuity and togetherness through these practices while resisting tensions and threats from their detractors.