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Mission and Summer Program Planner for 4-H and Youth Programs on the Crow reservation, and served as the president of Little Big Horn College located on the reservation. Real Bird has also served on the Montana Advisory Committee on Children and Youth and the Crow Central Education Commission. As the Teacher Orientation Specialist for the pacific Northwest Indian Program, he along with Karen Stone and Joseph Coburn developed The Indian Reading Series, which is a reading and language development program utilized across twelve Native American reservations across the Northwest. The series consists of a teaching manual and stories written by Real Bird in both Crow and English, some of which include
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