Montana Superintendent of Schools Denise Juneau Teams Up with Bozeman Based Hopa Mountain Foundation to Prepare Montana Children for Success in School

December 16, 2009
More Montana parents and caregivers will have the opportunity to prepare their children for success with reading thanks to a new partnership between the Montana Office of Public Instruction and the Hopa Mountain Foundation http://www.hopamountain.org/, a Montana-based non-profit that heads up a statewide literacy initiative.
Today, Superintendent Denise Juneau’s office announced the purchase of [...]

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Oglala Lakota youth rich with culture and knowledge

By Elvin Returns From Scout and Rose E. Honey, Special to Today
Story Published: Dec 5, 2009
Story Updated: Nov 27, 2009
“What is papa and how do you cook tinpsila?” Middle and high school students from the Lakota Native Science Field Center recently shared the answers to these questions with people from two other Native communities in [...]

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StoryMakers program brings books to rural, tribal communities

PABLO – No amount of grass, berries, clover and honey can satisfy the rapidly expanding belly of the main character in “Bear Wants More,” much to the delight of 4-year-old Kooper Page.
She grabbed the children’s book as soon as it entered her home in St. Ignatius, and squirreled it away for herself.
Kooper and her little [...]

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Hopa Mountain’s StoryMakers Program Expands Early Learning Opportunities for Montana’s Rural and Tribal Communities

Hopa Mountain has completed a three-day expanded statewide gathering of rural and tribal educators, parents, and early learning program administrators for its StoryMakers program. Primarily serving rural and tribal communities throughout Montana, the StoryMakers program is an early learning initiative that supports parents of children ages 0-5 in creating home environments that give their children [...]

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Bozeman School Lunches Go Local

On Friday, Oct. 23, the Bozeman School District will offer a local lunch featuring Montana-made products.
The menu includes bockwurst and potatoes out of Whitehall, and apples from Fromburg.
Volunteers with Gallatin Valley Farm to School, suited up in fruit and vegetable costumes, will be at most schools to help serve students and promote healthy eating with [...]

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Local Schools Join Gallatin Farm to Schools

Six Bozeman-area schools — Whittier, Irving, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Morning Star and Gallatin Gateway — have teamed up with Gallatin Valley Farm to School program to sell healthy, Montana-made foods and gifts as a fundraiser.
Parent organizations of the six schools performed skits for kids at school and wore vegetable costumes to promote the fundraiser, which continues [...]

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Students educated in traditional knowledge at NSFC Summer Institute

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Glacier Reporter
“What is the scientific name for yarrow? How do you say it in your tribal language? What is it used for?”
Students from the Blackfeet Native Science Field Center (BNSFC) recently shared the answers to these questions with people from two other Native communities at the Luccock Campground in the Paradise [...]

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Grants available for Youth Service Programs

The Governor’s Office of Community Service and Hopa Mountain, a Bozeman-based non-profit organization, announce the availability of competitive grants for Youth Leaders in Service. This Learn and Serve America grant program is designed to engage rural and tribal youth, ages 11-17, living in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, in leading service [...]

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Welcome to the Hopa Mountain blog

Greetings-
This blog in intended to serve as a place where most every Hopa Mountain story or press release can be found and commented upon. This is akin to a ‘behind the scenes’ area where items can be posted before they go to more formal publications. Articles, updates, interviews, stories… they can all be found here [...]

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