Building upon long-standing collaborations with the Arapahoe Schools, JH Wild’s Legacy Storytelling Project pilots a one-of-a-kind, peer-to-peer exchange in and beyond the classroom. Oct. 4-6, 100 Arapahoe fifth- and sixth-graders will travel to Jackson for multi-day field excursions. Arapahoe sixth-graders will join 45+ Latino and 45+ Anglo peers enrolled in Teton County’s Dual Immersion program for a series of cultural and educational experiences centered around the art of storytelling and the study of a shared iconic animal: the bison. Students will be immersed in natural history, traditional storytelling, slam poetry (with artist-in-residence Kealoha), language/culture, and visual/media arts – as they learn, create and share with each other. Later this autumn, students will similarly rendezvous—this time on the Wind River Reservation to witness the release of bison, returning the iconic creature to its historic range.