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Leaving the Rez

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Eighteen-year-old Povi Lomayaoma has lived on a Hopi reservation in Arizona her entire life. In two months, she’s leaving to go to college in Colorado to study journalism. She says she’ll miss many of her clan’s traditions.

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