College students learn reservation realities, culture: It's

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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 07-14-1997 College students learn reservation realities, culture: It's Massachusetts meeting Montana GARRYOWEN, Mont. -- Ten students from Bentley College in Boston, Mass., are learning you can't always believe what you read. The students have come to Garryowen to spend two weeks with the Real Bird family learning about Crow culture and lifeways. They are accompanied by professor Tim Anderson, a self-avowed convert of the Crow way of life. Mr.

Anderson spent a winter teaching at Little Bighorn College in Crow Agency and became hooked. "I wanted to give something back to this community," he said. "This is how I can do it." Most of the students have taken Mr. Anderson's sociology of Native Americans course, and all were...