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Written by: LENZY KREHBIEL-BURTON, NATIVE TIMES

Parent Category: Life

Published: 27 August 2017

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Sophia Keesie would like some company, please.

A Cheyenne, Arapaho, Navajo and Santa Clara Pueblo senior at Watonga High School, Keese shows swine as an officer with her school’s Future Farmers of America chapter.

Although the northwestern Oklahoma school is squarely within the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes’ jurisdictional area, she is the chapter’s only active Native member.

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