Tribal Colleges' K-12 Links Called Key to Reservations

By Mark Stricherz

Little Big Horn College, located on the Crow Indian reservation in the foothills of southeastern Montana, will offer computer classes this summer to 100 or so mostly Native American students from several reservations.

Scott Rusell, the college's technology specialist, insists that students learn more in the two-week course than simply how to surf the Web. He hopes that the classes help American Indian students become more proficient in computer skills so that history won't repeat itself.

"I always tell them our people who signed all those treaties were illiterate in the English language, and that should never happen...