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Obituary: Ojibwe educator 75
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2001 Grand Portage Ojibwe educator and advocate Ruth Myers died November 23 in Minnesota. She was 75. Myers was the first Indian woman to serve on the school board in Duluth, Minn. She served on the state's board of education and later was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to sit on the National Indian Task Force Office of Civil Rights. Get the Story:
Ruth Myers, champion of Indian education, dies in Duluth (AP 12/5)
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