Faith on the Frontier: Episode 2 - A Changing Landscape
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Faith on the Frontier: Episode 2 - A Changing Landscape
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As Catholic mission work spread east across Montana, the story took on a different shape.
In this episode, we move into eastern Montana and the Billings region, where permanent missions did not take root until the 1880s, decades after St. Mary’s. By this time, Native nations had been forced onto reservations, and life had been profoundly disrupted.
At places like St. Xavier Mission (founded in 1887 among the Crow), missions became centers of faith, education, and daily life. They offered stability, learning, and community.
But they also existed within a larger system, one that reshaped culture, language, and identity for Native peoples across the region.
This episode attempts to explore that tension honestly and respectfully, including:
- The growth of early Catholic schools
- The role of mission communities in a time of change
- And the beginnings of an educational system that would continue to expand across Montana