Middle and high school students took off from the theater after receiving their assigned T-shirts and leaders.
Dave and Michelle West set up a tipi in the school-community garden, where they shared Lakota stories and legends with elementary students.
The middle school-high school team in the yellow shirts won the traveling trophy for “The Great Race.” Team members are FRONT (L-R): Taggen Paxton, Louis Scholtz, Gabe Keller; BACK: Kade Conner, Kanton Hunt, Treyden Beer, Brady Sandquist, Dayson Gutierrez, Tye Boldt, Aidan Rough Surface, Landen Bieber, and team leader Jayme Murray.
Senior Kenna Webb designed the t-shirt logo for the Great Race
Teacher Jae White gives the blue shirt team instructions on the scavenger hunt at the Timber Lake Museum.
Megan O’Leary teaches a session on Lakota language to elementary students.
At the rodeo grounds Teri Gayer (BACK) and a very cooperative Stormy help Landen Bieber practice saddling a horse. Photos by Kathy Nelson
Wearing colored t-shirts to identify their teams, Timber Lake Middle School and High School students took off Monday morning on the “The Great Race” to observe Native American Day. Teams were assigned an advisor and followed clues around town to sites where activities were set up - including Lakota hop scotch, spear throwing, horse saddling, bow hunting, a scavenger hunt and other activities. The …