October 28-31, 2026
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
The Northern Great Plains History Conference is a professional gathering of scholars, affiliated and independent, public historians, history students, graduate and undergraduate and other practitioners of history, who live and work in the area of the Northern Great Plains of the United States and on the Canadian prairies.
The Friends of the Montana Constitution is pleased to support two sessions related to our State Constitution. Both will be held in the Procrastinator Theater on Thursday, October 29, 2026 on MSU Bozeman Campus. These sessions will be free and open to the public.
Montana’s 1972 Constitution, Part I
Thursday, October 29, 2026 (Conference Session 8)
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Procrastinator Theater
Chair: William G. Thomas III
Commentator: Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, Upper Seven Law
- Brad Snow, Montana State University, “Pushback Under the Big Sky: Political Opposition to the Proposed 1972 Constitution”
- Emily Arendt, Montana State University, Billings, “‘A Broad Grant of Power’: The 1972 Montana Constitution and Higher Education”
- Cody Ferguson, Houseal Lavigne Planners, “Clean and Healthful: Montana’s Constitutional Experiment, 1972-Present”
Montana’s 1972 Constitution, Part II
Thursday, October 29, 2026 (Conference Session 12)
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Procrastinator Theater
Chair/Moderator: Paul Lachapelle, Montana State University
- Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, Upper Seven Law “The Montana Constitution Road Show”
View the full Northern Great Plains History Conference program here:
https://www.ngphconference.org/conference-program
Registration for the full conference will be posted here: https://www.ngphconference.org/register