Students credited with new law

John Kelleher Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com

Montana will celebrate American Indian Heritage Day for the first time on Friday. The holiday came about in large part because of determined students at Hays-Lodge Pole High School. Their campaign to get the day established started in May 2008, when State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, then a Senate representative, spoke to the school's annual academic banquet. He challenged students, as he had challenged young people in the other eight high schools in or near his district, to help create laws in the...