Death Valley, Calif. — A school bus makes the long trek from Death Valley High School in Shoshone to a Timbisha Shoshone village in the national park.
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Shoshone, Calif. — Diannet Lujano, 15, takes a nap on the long bus ride home.
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Shoshone, Calif. — Students head for the bus at Death Valley High School.
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Death Valley. Calif. — Barb Taylor watches her son Zachary Lumpkin, 11, play with a yo-yo at their home in Furnace Creek before he begins the long ride to school in Shoshone.
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Death Valley, Calif. — Death Valley High School student Marlee RedWolf Rave, 14, in the backyard of her home in the national park.
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Death Valley, Calif. — Debra Watterson would never consider putting her daughter Marlee Redwolf-Rave in a boarding school. The idea stirs ugly images of the well-documented beatings and other abuse inflicted on Native American children in some Christian boarding schools, Watterson said.
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Death Valley, Calif. — Marlee RedWolf Rave, left, gets off the bus after returning to the Timbisha Shoshone village. “School is the highlight of my life,” the 14-year-old says.
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Shoshone, Calif. — Sisters Faith, 11, left, and Cherish Corderman, 12, share a music player while riding a school bus to their home in Amargosa from Death Valley High School in Shoshone.
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Death Valley, Calif. — A school bus carrying students from Death Valley High travels along California Highway 190.
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