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Olympian Mills To Visit Area Schools

Olympian  Mills To  Visit Area  Schools
Billy MillsBilly Mills, an Olympic gold medalist with an Oglala Lakota heritage, will be doing motivational speak events at area schools this week, including Culbertson, Brockton, Frazer, Poplar and Wolf Point, and will make a stop at the Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board meeting on Friday.
Olympian  Mills To  Visit Area  Schools
Billy MillsBilly Mills, an Olympic gold medalist with an Oglala Lakota heritage, will be doing motivational speak events at area schools this week, including Culbertson, Brockton, Frazer, Poplar and Wolf Point, and will make a stop at the Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board meeting on Friday.

By James Walling

Olympic gold medalist Oglala Lakota Billy Mills will be visiting schools in the area Sept. 22-23. The inspirational speaker will talk to students at Frazer School in morning beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 22. He will be at Wolf Point High School at 10 a.m.

Mills will be making an appearance at the Tribal Executive Board at 11:30 a.m. before heading to Poplar High School at 1 p.m.

The tour continues Friday, Sept. 23, with visits to Brockton and Culbertson schools. Mills was champion in the 10,000 meters in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He was the first non-European to win the event and remains the only winner of indigenous background from the Americas. Mills is also a United States Marine.

For more information, contact the Fort Peck Journal at 406-768-5366.

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