KALAMAZOO, MI — For some students, opening a textbook, looking to their classmates or finding a staff member who can relate to them is a luxury.
It’s a luxury Robin Greymountain, a former Kalamazoo Public Schools administrator and newly appointed “elder in residence” at Western Michigan University, didn’t find until her final years of high school.
Greymountain is from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Growing up, there weren’t always jobs for her parents on the reservation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula so they moved to places like Fulton, Portage and Comstock…