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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2003

An incredible number of White Earth Ojibwe tribal members and reservation residents have gone to college at Harvard University, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

Winona LaDuke, former Green Party vice presidential candidate, is probably the most famous, having graduated in 1982. But there are others like Willow Lawson, an editor at Psychology Today magazine in New York, who earned a bachelor's degree the same year as her mother, White Earth Tribal Judge Anita Fineday.

Add White Earth tribal college president Helen Klassen; Klassen's sister, Erma Vizenor; author Gerald Vizenor; former National Indian Gaming Association researcher Kate Spilde (now working at Harvard); constant presidential appointee Will Antell; Yvonne Novak, a Minnesota state official and writer Paulette Fairbanks as tribal members of residents who went to the school.

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Harvard's ties to White Earth, the education reservation (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 2/4)
White Earth biographies (The Minneapolis Star Tribune 2/4)