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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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September 21, 2002 - Issue 70 |
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Miss Alaska 2002 . . . Peggy Willman |
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Peggy
was raised in Eagle River, Alaska. She is Inupiaq, Eskimo, and often
visits the small village of Ambler, Alaska, where her mother was raised,
and much of her family still lives. She is a twenty-two year old student
pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Nursing at the University of Anchorage,
Alaska. She has been honored to receive the Indian Health Services Scholarship
Award for the past two years. IHS is a national scholarship in which
her tuition is paid for and she receives monthly stipends. She is an
active member of Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing
(RRANN), through the university. She has been an intern at the Alaska
Native Medical Center through Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
for the past two summers, and will return once again for the summer
of 2002. Now that Peggy has won the title of Miss Alaska she will continue
on to compete in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
She plans on taking her traditional Eskimo dance to nationals as her
talent. She will spend her year of service promoting her platform, "Cultural
Awareness" speaking to the youth about the cultural barriers that
exist throughout the state of Alaska.
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