Hi-Line Living: Stone Child College: Helping students step up and forward

Peggy Aquino moved with her husband and two sons in 1997 from California to Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. An enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree tribe, she grew up in California but as a child spent her summers with relatives on Rocky Boy.

"I moved back here just 'cause California was so busy. This was my home away from home" she said. That same year, Aquino also enrolled at Stone Child College. She went on to earn four associate of science degrees in two years and later certificates in two other programs.

Aquino, now scholarship officer at Stone Child, is one of many of students who...