community organizing

Aylssa Toce-Blount

Western Native Voice works year-round to inspire Native leadership so our communities flourish. We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice Community Spotlight. It’s designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Montana and in Indian Country.

This month we visited with18 year-old Alyssa Toce-Blount, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Tribes. Alyssa is a Frazer high school student who has participated in the Expanding Horizons youth ambassador program and is an inspiration to her community and tribes.

Brandon Fish

Western Native Voice works year-round to inspire Native leadership so our communities flourish. We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice Community Spotlight. It’s designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Montana and in Indian Country.

This month, we would like to introduce Brandon Fish of Great Falls. He is Amskapi Pikuni and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation. Brandon has spent many years community organizing and advocating for several causes affecting indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada. He currently works for the International Traditional Games Society.

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  • May 24, 2022

Josiah Hugs

Western Native Voice works year-round to inspire Native leadership so our communities flourish. We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Montana and in Indian Country.

This month, we would like to introduce Josiah Hugs of Billings. He is Apaasalooke and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe. Josiah has been a blessing to the Billings community by sharing his story to people on the streets and those suffering with addictions. He was instrumental in starting a talking circle in Billings and is now on a weekly podcast called Unspoken Words, a Native Podcast.

Harry Louis Beauchamp

Western Native Voice works year-round to inspire Native leadership so our communities flourish. We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Montana and in Indian Country.

This month, we would like to introduce Harry Louis Beauchamp, an Assiniboine member of the Fort Peck Tribes, who resides in Oswego, Montana. On Thanksgiving day in 2017, Harry and his wife Missy, opened the Beauchamp Kitchen to feed the hungry in the Wolf Point Community. The soup kitchen was one of the organizations that received a Mutual Aid grant from Western Native Voice which celebrated and honored those in our Native communities who have quietly gone above and beyond caring for and giving to those most in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kenneth “Tuffy” Helgeson

Western Native Voice works year-round to inspire Native leadership so our communities flourish. We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Montana and in Indian Country.

This month, we would like to introduce Kenneth “Tuffy” Helgeson, an Assiniboine member of the Fort Belknap Tribe, who resides in Lodge Pole, Montana. In 2020, Tuffy was one of the many people nominated for our COVID-19 Caregiver Grants which celebrated and honored those in our Native communities who have quietly gone above and beyond caring for and giving to those most in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alissa Snow

Western Native Voice works year-round to inspire Native leadership so our communities flourish. We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Montana and in Indian Country.

This month, we would like to introduce Alissa Snow. Alissa got her start in Montana politics by registering voters as a community organizer for Western Native Voice. She soon after became the State Field Director and Montana’s first full-time Native woman lobbyist. Alissa helped to create, pass, and implement state law that protects the culture of Montana’s Indigenous people. She played an integral role in passing historic Native healthcare legislation and helped to increase voter participation across Montana’s tribal nations.

Laurie Sun Child

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