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In the Running

By Adam Sings In The Timber

MISSOULA, Mont.—Native American athletes competed with the best runners in the state at the 45th Annual Montana High School Association Cross Country Championship, held Oct. 25 here at the University of Montana.

The Native runners came from reservation high schools in Lodge Grass, on the Crow Reservation; Browning and Heart Butte, on the Blackfeet Reservation; Rocky Boy, on the Rocky Boy's Reservation; Ronan, on the Flathead Reservation; and Wolf Point, on the Fort Peck Reservation. They also ran for Hardin High School, located on the northern border of the Crow Reservation; Havre, near the Rocky Boy's and Fort Belknap Reservations; and Culbertson, just west of the Fort Peck Reservation.

The runners from Culbertson High School traveled the farthest: 650 miles, more than 10 hours by bus.

Crow tribal member Fred Alden IV, a senior at Hardin High School, was one of the highest-finishing runners at the meet. Alden finished sixth in the Class A race with a time of 16:28.78, and his team placed 13th.

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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