A Shout-Out From Montana

December 21, 2007
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The 527 Native students at the University of Montana have at least one thing in common: their diversity.

Breanna Roy, Blackfeet, is studying broadcast journalism at the University of Montana in Missoula. A 2007 graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute, Roy interned at the St. Cloud (Minn.) Times last summer, producing multimedia reports for the newspaper's Web site. This summer she will intern as a reporter at KELOLAND-TV in Sioux Falls, S.D.

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