Will: It is the 4th day in Montana and today was a big day. We woke up earlier in the morning to get to school to set up the book fair for the students. Then we got straight into classes starting with an assembly in homeroom going over the activities of the week. We got to work with the kids till about lunch time and we headed on the 30-minute drive to Glacier National Park. When we got there, we were greeted by the park rangers who took us on a tour of the showing us the mountains and telling us about the history of the Blackfeet tribe and how the national park came to be. During the two-hour hike we got to take in all the views of the beautiful mountains. When we arrived home, we got to start preparing the pulled pork dinner. Then a couple of us went outside to play football until the sun started setting. At the end of the night we all reflected on presence and spirit relating to are time here. I am looking forward to working with the kids more in the classroom.

Noah: After School, we went to Glacier National Park. It was an awesome experience that I will never forget. However, throughout the hike, where we saw amazing views and cool wildlife and found many animal tracks, I kept finding myself thinking about how this experience I get to have is stolen. Going back almost 20,000 years, the Blackfeet called Glacier, and millions of acres of land around it, home. The mountains weren't a tourist attraction; they were the backbone of the world. The Bison weren't a cool Instagram story post; they were what the people lived off of. And yet 200 years ago, this all changed. The Bison were killed by white settlers for sport. The northwest territories were shrinking dramatically because of Manifest Destiny's privileged and tyrannical view. The United States Government was essentially stealing land through purposeful misinterpretation of treaties, military pressures, and starvation tactics. The Blackfeet are now confined to a reservation that doesn't even include Glacier National Park as a place where they can live-they were pressured into leasing the land for much less than it could ever be worth. That land, while it was very awesome to experience, was stolen. Going on a tourist attraction hike was not something I should have been able to experience. These thoughts are incredibly humbling to me. I was walking on sacred land like it was just an everyday thing. So, I am going to strive, every day, to use these thoughts to bring awareness to the injustice and pain. When people ask me, "how was Glacier?" I am going to be entirely honest and tell the truth- because the least the Blackfeet deserve is for the whole truth to be told.