Growing up, Sarah Lancaster found her safe space in the Onamia Public Schools. As she became a teacher herself, she knew she wanted to return home to teach in Onamia, a small town in central Minnesota’s Mille Lacs County with a majority Native American student body.

“If I can change one person the way my community changed me, I will have done my job,” she said.

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