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Nicholas Salazar (center), Secretary of the Native American Student Union, tells students about the club’s Culture Fest display, which includes a Bible translated into the Navajo language, fry bread and weaved baskets. (Photo by Garrett Ohrenberg)
By Lana Sweeten-Shults
GCU News Bureau
Hui Aloha Club member Kassidy Oamil performs a Tahitian dance at the event.
“Some of us come from places with no electricity or no running water,” she said, much less paved roads, a Walmart or a McDonald’s. “Ever since kindergarten, I haven’t gone to school with other races.”
So it was a whole new world for her when she arrived in sprawling west Phoenix, in one of the most diverse areas of the city.