A member of the Omaha Tribe is retiring after 31 years of service in the public school system in Lawrence, Kansas.

Russell Blackbird started out as a teacher and ended up as principal. He said he has seen the schools make improvements in the education of minority and low-income students.

Blackbird, who also taught on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska and at San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico, wants to teach at the college level in Indian and multicultural education.

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South principal to retire in search of new classrooms (The Lawrence Journal-World 10/5)