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FROM AROUND THE STATE GROS VENTRE STUDENT WINS NEWSPAPER SCHOLARSHIP: Lewis Morsette Yellow Robe has received a $1,000 scholarship from the Great Falls Tribune to study journalism at the University of Montana. Yellow Robe, a Gros Ventre, is the first recipient of the Tribune's scholarship aimed at encouraging Native Americans to pursue careers in journalism. A 1988 graduate of Great Falls High School, he is a freshman this year at UM. “We’re delighted that a student of Lewis’ caliber is coming o the journalism school,” Charles E. Hood, dean of the UM School of Journalism, said. “We hope we can encourage other Native American students in Montana to come to UM’s jour nalism school.” Yellow Robe has been editor of the newsletter for Upward Bound, a year-round program with a special summer session that helps prepare Native Americans for college. “He’s one of my real bright spots,” Jon Stannard, director of the Upward Bound program atUM, said. “I’m impressed most with his sense of self-confidence.” Out of all the students Stannard has worked [with] in his 11 years with Upward Bound, he says Yellow Robe has excelled the most. When Yellow Robe entered the program as a fresh man in high school, Stannard said, his skill level was that of a college freshman. Through Upward Bound he has won numer ous awards, including this year’s most outstanding student award. “He applies himself 150 percent in everything he does,” Stannard said. “He wants to go a long way, and I expect he will.” The Tribune’s new scholarship is the first journalism schol arship at UM awarded to Native Americans who want to work exclusively in newspapers. Hood said he’s grateful to the Tribune for its contribution to the UM journalism school’s program, established last year to help Native Americans study for newspaper or broadcasting careers. JUDGE PUTS MONEY IN TRUST: Chief U S. District Judge James Battin ruled Sept. 19 that $29 million of Crow Tribe coal money had to be held in trust rather than released to the Tribal government He’s been asked to reconsider his action due to a related suit in Tribal Court that’s being ap pealed. An Interior Dept, internal appeal is pending, as well. (Billings Gazette excerpt) CROW GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN: Crow Tribal Chairman Richard Real Bird said he had to shut down Tribal offices recently because the electricity and telephones had been shut off, and employees hadn’t been paid in 21/2 months. He and about 50 other people showed up at BIA offices in B illings Nov. 2 to an attempt to get money released to pay some bills. BIA area director Mack Cole told the Associated Press (from which this is excerpted) that they will be releasing about $493,000 to cover a budget approved by Crow Tribal members in October. SMITHSONIAN RETURNS REMAINS: The Smith sonian Institute broke with policy for the second time when it returned the remains of 16 Blackfeet people to the tribe for reburial. The national museum doesn’t easily part with items it has collected over the decades, in spite of Indian opinion that it’s racist and sacreligious for Native remains and artifacts to be objects of exhibition and study. (AP excerpt) FORT PECK CO. GETS CONTRACT: West Electron ics, owned by the Assiniboine - Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, has been awarded a $2.5 million contract by the Army to produce four defense items. The contract will enable the firm to double its crew of 16-18 by next May. (Excerpted from the Wotanin Wowapi news-weekly) MERCHANT GETS INTO RED RIBBON SPIRIT: The Fort Peck Mercantile in Poplar celebrated national Red Ribbon Week (“Celebrate Life - Drug-Free”) by offering a 10% discount on anything in the store to anyone wearing a red ribbon on Oct. 28. ■ ® ® ■ y . ■ V a y . g V ■ y . ■ V ■ y . B V ■ ■ V ■ . g V ■ y . ■ V ■ y . ■ V ■ y . j MSU, from the previous page: at Stanford University this fall. “Math and science require different ways of thinking, and algebra class is where Native American students branch off into vocational technical tracks or drop out,” she says. Pond got through algebra class with tutoring from her father, who has a background in engineering. For her, the advantage of the MBRS program was the lab experience she got while working with one of the University of Montana’s top chemists. She was the only undergraduate in his lab. Leticea Stevenson says that her interest in medical school was stirred early enough that even without the MBRS program she would have pursued her dream anyway. “Many students say that without the program they would have dropped out of school,” says the 24-year-o!d member of Montana’s Salish-Kootenai Tribes. “That’s not the case with me but it would have taken me longer to get this far.” Like Doney, Stevenson will attend the University of Washington School of Medicine. Jennifer Huddleston, the fourth student from this year’s MBRS ranks to be accepted into medical school, will attend Dartmouth College. Huddleston, 26, is a member of the Rose bud Sioux tribe and has been with the MBRS program for three years. “The hardest thing about medical school so far,” says Jessica Doney, while attending preliminary classes at theUniversity of Washington this summer, “is that the people around me now don’t know anything about reservation life. B ut on the reserva tion people don’t know anything about medical school.” g ^ A * * ' g « « x x 3 n m n n n n n n r a i N o v e m b e r 23, i 9 ss - c s k t s char-Koosta News, Pabio, mt - pa g e 7
