On a morning this April that threatened rain, Davonne Teri John lined up with more than 400 other Fort Lewis College seniors to accept her baccalaureate degree.
Bright blue and red beads of her powwow regalia peeked through her graduation gown, and a silver and turquoise stone bracelet gleamed on her wrist.
As a member of the Navajo tribe, John is one of hundreds of Native American students at the college who qualified for free tuition because of a century-old promise made by the state of Colorado.
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