It was hard for Toppenish teachers to understand why a funeral could keep Yakama Nation students away from school for a week.
Or why some tribal students would suddenly need time off to gather traditional foods in the mountains.
But that was before Patsy Whitefoot became the school district’s director of Indian education more than five years ago.
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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