‘Creating a brighter future’
Navajo Times | Donovan Quintero Senior at Winslow High School Sidrick Dixon, from Dilkon, Ariz., shows his short video titled “Our Traditon Will Never Die” on a Microsoft tablet Tuesday at the Winslow Residential Hall in Winslow, Ariz.
Residential hall students show off video skills to Interior Secretary
Navajo Times | Donovan Quintero
Winslow High School senior Sidrick Dixon, bandana, shows U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell a video he’s produced Tuesday during the secretary’s visit in Winslow, Ariz.
WINSLOW, Ariz.
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior has a lot on her plate right now — the BIE restructuring and the Gold King Mine spill, to name a few.
Navajo Times | Donovan Quintero
Senior at Winslow High School Sidrick Dixon, from Dilkon, Ariz., shows his short video titled “Our Traditon Will Never Die” on a Microsoft tablet Tuesday at the Winslow Residential Hall in Winslow, Ariz.
But Tuesday afternoon, Sally Jewell’s job was to hang out with teenagers — a task the mother of two seemed to find totally agreeable.
Jewell visited the Winslow Residential Hall to check on a public-private partnership spearheaded by President Barack Obama’s Generation Indigenous initiative to get more technology into the hands of Native youth.
The Bureau of Indian Education-contracted residential hall, which houses Navajo and Hopi students so they can attend Winslow High School, is one of 10 dorms and boarding schools across the country to receive donations of electronic tablets for each student, and instructions on how to use them.
The Kinlani Bordertown Dormitory in Flagstaff and Holbrook Dormitory, both of which sent students to Winslow for the presentation, were also among those chosen to participate.
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