This February, Kyrie Ransom, a 24-year-old Mohawk woman from the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation in Akwesasne, in upstate New York made a tiny bit of history with Grey, her nearly 18-month-old German shepherd, when they became the first students from a First Nations territory in either the United States or Canada to earn a “Canine Life and Social Skills (CLASS) B.A.” from the Shannoncourt training facility in Martintown, Ontario.