Sequoyah Graduates Four Seminoles: Stephanie Hires Is Valedictorian

From: Seminole Tribune | Date: May 27, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Peter B. Gallagher
Seminole Tribune
05-27-1994
Sequoyah Graduates Four Seminoles: Stephanie Hires Is Valedictorian.

For Seminole Tribe of Florida student Yvette Jumper, going to high school in a remote part of Oklahoma was an escape she desperately needed: "I wanted something different. I wanted to get away. All the girls on the reservation seemed to be getting pregnant and everyone was drifting. I just wanted to get away from all that."

She successfully enrolled in a special school nestled near the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma. Sequoyah, one of a handful of national Native American ...

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