The Kaimin Cast

Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin 

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Halloween weekend fills the streets with people of all ages dressed in their favorite ghouls, characters and memes. At the University of Montana, Halloween can be a wild addition to the college experience. But they don’t roll out of bed decked out in face paint, wigs and fur, the costume is pieced together in the time leading up to the night. For one group of girls, a rented house in the University district became their dressing room, going in as a normal college student and coming out as their hot Halloween counterpart.

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Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin 

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Libby Riddle / Advanced Audio Capstone 

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In 2007, a University of Montana graduate student in the anthropology department started digging at a 19th-century gold mining camp known as China Gulch a little over an hour northwest of Missoula. There he discovered bone fragments that help tell the story of the Chinese immigrants that occupied it. This episode is by UM graduate student Libby Riddle for last spring’s advanced audio capstone’s Good Bones project.

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Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin 

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Lotus Porte-Moyel / Advanced Audio Capstone 

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This next Good Bones episode tells the history of the Montana State Hospital, the patients buried surrounding it and the work citizens are doing to keep the patients from being forgotten. Thousands of the patients buried were unclaimed and remained unvisited by family. Slowly, people are working to locate and properly document each name on the gravestones so they can be remembered. This story is by UM student Lotus Porte-Moyel for last spring’s advanced audio capstone, the Good Bones Project.

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Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin 

grace.golbach@umontana.edu

The Missoula community loves its nightlife, and so do the University of Montana students. At local bars, they socialize among each other after long weeks of work and classes. At the doors, they are met by bouncers checking IDs and keeping interactions safe. One Stockman’s Bar bouncer is a student and a UM Griz hockey goalie. Isaac Jones Weatherford and the bouncers of Missoula help keep peers and the community safe enjoying the nights downtown.

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Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin 

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Vivi Ostheimer / Advanced Audio Capstone 

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During the late 1800s, four children of the Gros Ventre Tribe on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation attended Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania and died there. Their bones were not returned home until three were exhumed and identified in 2023. Members of the tribe journeyed to the east coast to bring them home. The fourth remains unknown. This episode dives into the history of Indian boarding schools and the repatriation of the children’s bones. This story is by UM student Vivi Ostheimer for last spring’s advanced audio capstone, Good Bones project

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Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin 

Lily Meskers / Advanced Audio Capstone

University of Montana alum Haley Omeasoo discovered the remains of an Indigenous woman in a box in a campus closet. The finding brought concerns about the University’s compliance with NAGPRA, a federal law requiring Indigenous remains be returned to the tribe. After 40 years in this closet, Omeasoo found the woman and dove into why she is here, how she got here and where she is supposed to be. This story is by UM graduate Lily Meskers for last spring’s advanced audio capstone’s Good Bones project.

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A podcast from the Montana Kaimin, the University of Montana’s independent, student-run newspaper.

Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin 

grace.golbach@umontana.edu

8.4 million acres of land have already burned due to wildfires across the country in 2026. Students across the University of Montana have been affected by wildfire smoke or flames, whether through their work as wildland firefighters, or simply living where fires reach. From a past fire in small-town Colorado to the fires in Spokane that made nationwide news, this podcast shares the stories of three students’ personal experiences with wildfires.

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Missoula’s River City Roots Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary with music, dancing and laughter. Missoula residents and university students come together to connect as a community. The event eases out summer and welcomes students back into the downtown community. 

For 25 years, a group of women have stood at the south end of Beartracks Bridge in dedication to a peaceful world. They stand as part of an international network of women promoting nonviolence. Current events are making their presence louder. 

Episode by Grace Golbach / Montana Kaimin

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The Oval is not just the center of campus, it is also UM’s student-run literary magazine with a mission to be a building block in students' artistic journeys. A publication in a literary magazine can be the first stepping stone in many careers.

Episode by Chaytan Reid / Montana Kaimin

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