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Running with a passion Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills tells Horton students to find a positive, constructive activity they can enjoy in life.
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Mills
--- Greg Lahann/The Capital-Journal
By MATT MOLINE
Special to The Capital-Journal
HORTON --- As a Kansas high school student in the mid-1950s,
Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills thought he had found the ideal
summer job cleaning out farmers' grain elevators in South Dakota.
But Mills and a fellow student from Haskell Indian Nations
University couldn't find a landowner willing to rent the pair a place
to live --- until a compassio...
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[ The next U.S. president should nominate an American Indian to the Supreme Court...]
The Topeka Capital-Journal
; Greg Lahann/The Capital-Journal By MATT MOLINE Special to The Capital-Journal HORTON The next U.S. president should nominate an American Indian to the Supreme Court, Olympic champion Billy Mills said in a speech Thursday at Horton High School. Mills, a member of South Dakota's Oglala Lakota
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Blessed union of soles/The Navajo Nation in northern Arizona waits with anticipation as American Indian identical twins vie for spots on the U.S. Olympic team as long-distance runners.
The Gazette
; "Dear Billy Mills, It was an honor to have you in our home. After listening to you and meeting you, I know you are one of the greatest people. Until I met you, I thought I was just another Indian kid who meant nothing - From an American Indian youngster on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota.
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NO RUN-OF-MILLS WIN IN 1964, AN AMERICAN INDIAN IN BORROWED SHOES WON THE 10,000; TODAY, A SOMALIA NATIVE WHO LIVES IN THE UNITED STATES WANTS TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS
Rocky Mountain News
; Softball players, swimmers, even cyclists - half the American Olympics team, it seems - pick the same film for inspiration. In the Athletes Village, wherever there is a red-white-and-blue U.S. uniform, there is a copy of Miracle, the story of the underdog American hockey team that toppled the
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NO RUN-OF-MILLS WIN IN 1964, AN AMERICAN INDIAN IN BORROWED SHOES WON THE 10,000 TODAY, A SOMALIA NATIVE WHO LIVES IN THE UNITED STATES WANTS TO FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS.(Special Pullouts)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Jody Berger, Rocky Mountain News ATHENS -- Softball players, swimmers, even cyclists - half the American Olympics team, it seems - pick the same film for inspiration ...
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Anne Waters, ed. American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays.(Book Review)
The American Indian Quarterly
; Anne Waters, ed. American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. xxxviii + 305 pp. Paper, $29.95. In an effort to raise greater awareness about American Indian worldviews in the field of philosophy, American Indian Thought is the first book to gather the work
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