Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School Girls Basketball Team with Leigh Larson
Join us in the Cordingley Room at 6:30 PM as we continue celebrating National Women’s Day with Leigh Larson!
Before Caitlin Clark and the WNBA crushed records on our screens, the Fort Shaw girls’ basketball team dominated headlines. This program takes viewers into the world of Montana, Indian boarding schools, the rise of basketball, and the Fort Shaw girls who were right in the middle of all of it. Learn about their incredible triumphs at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 in the face of racism, sexism, cultural genocide, and American propaganda.
Leigh Larson is a storyteller. Whether it’s writing, speaking, filming, or digital designing, Miss Larson aims to make stories relatable, entertaining, and memorable for her audiences.
She completed her undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s in International Relations and minors in Environmental Sciences and World Religion/Philosophy. She worked in Texas politics prior to serving as a minister in the USAFR Chaplains Corps and for a church in Denver. She successfully helped start a recovery non-profit before growing her
skills in tech as a web and graphic designer before launching her web and graphic business full-time. She has visited 46 American states and many national parks, as well as traveled in Sweden, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania.