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A Long Way Home: A Crow Indian Boarding School Story

Curtis Brien is principal and athletic director of Lodge Grass High School on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. But his path to that position was long and difficult. In this episode of Mountain West Voices, he talks about the emotional and physical scars left by his four years at Indian boarding schools, and what he learned from the experience.

(Broadcast: "Mountain West Voices,"  3/21/16, Monday afternoons, 4:53 p.m., or via podcast.)

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