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Ryan Booth will soon have the rare opportunity to both study and make history at the same time.

This after the La Conner High alum, now a doctoral candidate at Washington State University, was selected earlier this month for a prestigious J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award.

Booth has been approved by the Fulbright Board to research comparisons between U.S. Native American soldiers and Indian auxiliaries of the British Raj from the mid-19th century to the onset of World War II.

Booth, who spent much of his youth on Swinomish Reservation, will travel to India for what he calls an...