AIR TIMES: • June 16, 2008 7:30 AM EST

Empowerment and Revival
Heather Templeton travels to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to meet Robert Young, the founder of Red Feather Development Group, a nonprofit that works with Native Americans to build straw-bale houses on impoverished reservations. Robert has found happiness through educating and empowering native families so that they may take a leading role in the betterment of their communities.

Then we head to Charleston, South Carolina, to meet Philip Simmons, a master blacksmith and designer. Having devoted more than 70 years to his craft, he has has decorated Chrleston with several hundred pieces of his work and virtually made the city his personal living museum.

Resources

Robert Young, Founder, Red Feather Development Group
www.redfeather.org

Anita Young, Robert’s Wife
Contact information not available

Tammy and Mark Roundstone, Red Feather Homeowner Recipients
Contact information not available

Philip Simmons, Blacksmith
www.philipsimmons.org

John Paul, Founder, American College of the Building Arts
www.buildingartscollege.us/

Joseph Pringle, Blacksmith
Contact information not available