Most students are taught Native American history and culture throughout grammar school, high school and sometimes even in college. They read about Indian rituals like sweat lodges and buffalo hunts and see old photographs of teepees in their textbooks. Students are usually outsiders looking in on a way of life very different from their own.
But each summer, a group of Canisius College students experience life with the Indians first-hand, living with a Crow family for five days.
Last August, Canisius College professor Keith “Kiki” Burich accompanied a group of students to southeast Montana, as guests of the Crow Indians and participated in Crow Fair, an annual gathering of various Indian tribes from all across the country, who come together to celebrate Native American past and present. read more
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