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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 Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and the Billings Gazette and Great Falls Tribune in Montana. In October 2007, 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.

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