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NORTHFIELD, Minn. - Sometimes white people can seem really ignorant,
says Alistaire MacRae, a 17-year-old Navajo high school student, noting the
time he and his family vacationed at Yellowstone National Park and were
soon surrounded by tourists snapping pictures of them, as though they were a
herd of elk.

Still, Mr. MacRae wants a college education and knows that some good
universities are predominantly white, far from his homelands in the Arizona
desert, and hard to get into. So his parents paid $50 for Alistaire to join 50
other American Indian students this summer, meeting with representatives of
Harvard, Stanford and 19 other schools for a crash course on how to apply to
elite colleges.
SourceNY Times
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