On Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Indian Affairs Larry Echohawk will join Myron L. Rolle to announce an innovative health program for Indian schools.
The 1:00 p.m. EDT event in the Main Interior Building’s South Penthouse will be followed by a news media availability. Media can also participate via a moderated teleconference by dialing 1-888-603-9712 and entering the access code 3561667.
The Myron L. Rolle Foundation was founded by Rolle, a 2008-09 All-American safety at Florida State University and Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, who designed and implemented the health program last year for American Indian fifth-graders at a charter school in Okeechobee, Florida.
Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education funds and operates 184 schools across the country, on 64 reservations in 23 states and serves 48,000 students. The goal of the bureau is to educate the “whole person by taking into account the spiritual, mental, physical, and cultural aspects of the individual.
