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Article: The road from White Earth to Harvard; On a northwest Minnesota Indian reservation where higher education is prized, Ivy League graduates aren't hard to find.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 4, 2003
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Byline: Paul Levy; Staff Writer
Mahnomen, Minn. -- The hand-painted sign above the storefront door says "White Earth Tribal and Community College." But nearly everything else here says Harvard.
"Many students who enter my office have never heard of Harvard," said Helen Klassen, founder and president of this four-buildings-on-Main Street tribal college. "But they learn quickly."
The framed Harvard doctorate and master's degrees in Klassen's office only hint at the unlikely connection between America's oldest institution of higher learning and the White Earth Reservation, which has been considered home to at least 12 people with Harvard ...