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The 40-Year-Old Powwow

May 22, 2008

By Adam Sings In The Timber

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MISSOULA, Mont. — The Kyi-Yo Native American Student Association at the University of Montana last month celebrated a milestone birthday: The annual powwow that the school's Native students organize and sponsor is 40 years old.

The Kyi-Yo powwow is one of the oldest and largest student-hosted powwows in the nation.

Adam Sings In The Timber, Crow, is a senior majoring in photojournalism at the University of Montana in Missoula. A graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, Sings In The Timber has had photo internships at the Billings Gazette and Great Falls Tribune newspapers in Montana. In October, he attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, an intense four-day gathering of top photojournalism professionals in New York City and won a scholarship as the top student. This summer, he will intern at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va.

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