An Anonymous Patron writes “Loriene Roy, professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin, founded “If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything” a national reading program for Native American children in fall 1999. Roy, an Anishinabe (Ojibwe) enrolled on the White Earth Reservation and a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, has spent a lifetime promoting literacy for indigenous students.
Roy will be the first Native person to serve as president of the 130-year-old American Library Association (ALA) in 2007-08.”
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