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As a Fulbright Scholar, La Conner alum Ryan Booth visited, toured and studied on the Indian subcontinent.

Now the Washington State University Ph.D. candidate is doing the same across the United States, his summer travels including a stop at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, a July 4 fireworks show in St. Louis and presenting a July 14 program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“I had three major purposes for the trip,” Booth told the Weekly News this week. “One, get to Chicago to fulfill my obligations f...