“It could be a totally native university, with a curriculum based toward health issues, land issues, water issues -- the stuff our people need,” said Vann, whose ancestry includes the Western Band Cherokee and Washo tribes. “A lot of our people need healing, and we could learn how to help them in our own setting, our own situation.”
Vann will attend Sacramento State University in the fall, transferring the credits she received from D-Q before 2005.
For her part, Reece plans to keep fighting for the school until every option has been exhausted, even if she is eventually the only one.
“D-Q is barely breathing,” she said. “But I still feel there’s life out there.”
--Associated Press
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