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Recruiting of Indian educators a success

Even before he got his teaching degree, Keith Erickson ranked as a hero in his hometown.

In the mid-1990s, the 6-foot-7 star dazzled Poplar on the basketball court and helped fill the football stadium with fans. He won places on all-state and all-star basketball and football teams.

His picture hangs on Poplar High School’s wall of fame.

But his most important role has little to do with basketball courts and football fields. Today, Erickson is role model, mentor and seventh-grade math teacher at his old middle school on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana.

‘‘The reason I went off to school, I had a mentor, a P.E. teacher, who went to school in Missoula,’’ the Montana State University-Billings graduate said.

By LORNA THACKERAY – The Billings Gazette

Full Story: http://helenair.com/articles/2006/08/27/montana/f02082706_03.txt

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