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Article: Indian interns learn ways of Hill.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1996
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When the rain pours down, Troy Honahnie doesn't wish it away like many people. Instead, he smiles up at the great sky and prays for the water to reach his home state - Arizona.
He misses his grandfather's voice. For the past four weeks, his mornings have begun on the streets of Washington. Here he enters a world of job-crazy people, nonstop traffic and uncomfortable Metro rides to Capitol Hill. It is a world far different from his own.
Mr. Honahnie ordinarily lives on a Hopi reservation. This summer, he is one of 10 interns with the first class of the Morris K. Udall Foundation, which provides six-week, all-expenses-paid congressional ...