Native American professors hired to tenure-track jobs at UM

This story was filed on January 21, 2013

It took 120 years for a Blackfeet Indian to receive a tenure-track position at the University of Montana, and while Rosalyn LaPier wonders what took so long, she doesn’t mind being first.

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