Impact of the Frankel Trip

Students from the Frankel Jewish Academy in Detroit, Michigan visited the Northern Cheyenne Homelands in September 2025 as one of their choices for their 9th grade with The Lodge Approach. Two of their students wrote about their experiences and they were published in the Detroit Jewish News. You can read or listen to their stories here.

Emma S. 12/26/25: https://www.thejewishnews.com/opinion/student-corner-a-trip-worth-remembering/article_74f16b62-22e0-41d5-abaf-d00ef12bcbe7.html

Luca T. 1/30/26: https://www.thejewishnews.com/opinion/the-frankel-montana-trip/article_eaaf6c98-1dbd-4ec0-92e1-87d06737c34b.html

Learn more about Youth Programs from The Lodge Approach HERE.

KSU with Buffalo Artifacts & AR

Junior level students at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio taking social studies teaching methods from Dr. Scott Durham were getting hands on experience with primary source artifacts about the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. They used Ahtove.org to experience Augmented Reality with Chitat in regalia (first picture – Chitat is 6 ft. tall), researched about artifacts from Randall Tall Bull on the uses of the buffalo (second and third picture), and then touched and talked about the artifacts from the buffalo trunk. Dr, Durham shared about the importance and relevance of using artifacts in social studies instruction as these students were preparing for a future in social studies at the high school level.

You can learn more about the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, AR and the Buffalo Trunk HERE.
https://ahtove.org/buffalo-trunk/

The Lodge Approach has created educational websites that you can view HERE.
https://thelodgeapproach.org/educational-websites