Left to right, MAPS Executive Director Clare Ann Harff, MAPS Fort Belknap student Amilia Blackcrow, and MAPS Communications and Marketing Director Janna Williams pose with MAPS’ Emmy.
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MAPS Media Institute, a nonprofit that aims to empower youth through professional media arts instruction, last weekend received an Emmy statuette at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Northwest ceremony in Seattle.
MAPS won the Governors’ Award, which recognizes an individual, institution or organization that has made a “profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution to the arts.” At the ceremony, MAPS was also recognized as a “Trailblazer in Diversity” for Montana.
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Clare Ann Harff accepts the award on behalf of the organization with Amilia Blackcrow and Janna Williams.
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In her acceptance speech, MAPS Media Institute Executive Director Clare Ann Harff thanked “the many tribal and rural Montana communities who have welcomed and trusted MAPS to work with their youth over the past 18 years.”
MAPS Media Lab, an educational outreach program within the institute, was created in 2017 and brings industry-level equipment and professional instruction to rural and tribal communities statewide.
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Since 2015, MAPS student films have been nominated for and won nearly 30 awards. Last October, five student films made in collaboration with MAPS made the shortlist for national awards. Produced on the Fort Belknap and Fort Peck reservations, the student films tackled ideas of ancestral heritage, identity and Indigenous communities’ relationships with buffalo.
Established in 2004, MAPS Media Institute began by providing instruction to 20 filmmaking students in the Bitterroot Valley. The organization has since expanded to provide year-round programming in Hamilton and Helena and engages youth across the state in media production, graphic design, photojournalism, podcasting and more.
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Winning Powerball numbers from May 10 drawing
05-20-28-39-42, Powerball: 13, Power Play: 2
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Winning Lucky For Life numbers from May 10 drawing
05-12-19-43-47, Lucky Ball: 14
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Winning Lotto America numbers from May 10 drawing
10-12-27-45-51, Star Ball: 01, ASB: 03
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Winning Big Sky Bonus numbers from May 10 drawing
01-03-06-20, Bonus: 15
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Winning Powerball Double Play numbers from May 10 drawing
24-36-43-47-69, Powerball: 22
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Winning Montana Cash numbers from May 10 drawing
13-16-22-30-31
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When are the Montana Lottery drawings held?
Powerball: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Mega Millions: 9 p.m. MT on Tuesday and Friday.
Lucky For Life: 8:38 p.m. MT daily.
Lotto America: 9 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Big Sky Bonus: 7:30 p.m. MT daily.
Powerball Double Play: 8:59 p.m. MT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Montana Cash: 8 p.m. MT on Wednesday and Saturday.
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Arbor Day, Flag Day, Freedom Week? Bill requiring schools to educate students about sacrifices made for the U.S. awaiting governor’s signature.
By Jordan HansenDAILY MONTANAN
A weeklong celebration of “freedom” is likely coming to Montana schools under a law passed during the 2025 legislative session.
House Bill 591 adds “Freedom Week” to a list of codified “commemorative days” that includes Washington’s birthday, Arbor Day, Flag Day and American Indian Heritage Day, among several others. All other commemorative days are for a single day, while the celebration of freedom will last a week.
The law, which is awaiting Gov. Greg Gianforte’s signature, requires school districts to adopt a policy to “ensure the effective conduct of appropriate exercises for the commemorative days,” according to the legislation.
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Rep. Greg Oblander, R-Billings, brought the legislation and said its intent “is to educate students about the sacrifices that were made for freedom in the founding of the United States” during a House hearing on the bill in February.
Schools are already doing much of the work the bill seeks to accomplish, said Gordon Klasna, who is the executive director of secondary education for the Billings Public Schools. Klasna oversees the middle and high schools in the district.
Klasna said the district will look for guidance from the Montana School Boards Association as well as its attorneys as they adopt the new bill. The district was keeping an eye on the bill during the process, as it does with other legislation impacting schools, he added.
No funding was attached to the bill, but the new commemorative week won’t be a cost to the district, and Klasna added it is, “something that we can easily do.” As he understands it, the bill directs districts to commemorate sacrifices made for this country while also “expounding” upon the values the United States was founded on.
The bill initially received pushback from the Montana School Boards Association in the form it was presented to the House. Originally, the bill asked for three hours of study on the U.S. Constitution, the Montana Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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As originally written, it would have also required “school districts to ensure that pupils in grades 3 through 12 recite a certain passage from the Declaration of Independence.”
That language was amended out. During the Senate hearing for the bill, both the Montana School Boards Association and Office of Public Instruction supported the legislation.
“We think we struck the right balance with the amendments here, without taking any of the value of what Representative Oblander brought to the table in the first place,” said Lance Melton, with the school boards association.
If signed, Freedom Week would be the last full week of September.
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