Indians making their mark on Eastern elite colleges

0 Comments | Indian Country Today (Lakota Times), August, 2000 | by Adams, Jim

Adams, Jim Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 08-23-2000 Indians making their mark on Eastern elite colleges By Jim Adams TODAY STAFF CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When Andrew Lee went to his opening week of classes at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he passed a rotunda displaying the national flags of the students attending the school.

But as a Seneca, Lee never saw the flag of his own people, until this year. Now, after a bit of lobbying, the school's flying the flags of two Indian nations, the Osage and Lee's Iroquois confederacy. "It was up there flying front and center," Lee said. "I felt really proud." Lee is one of a generation of Indian students making a serious impact on elite Eastern campuses and in turn bringing the impressive resources...