- Devon: My name is Devon DeVerney
and I go to Lakeland Union High School.
- Devon played Varsity football for three years
and was crowned homecoming king this past fall.
But it took Devon time to find his place in high school.
- Devon: I grew so much
through my freshman to my senior year
because I used to be quiet,
like, the kid that sits in the back of the class
and now I'm the kid that sits in front of the class.
- Devon is a member
of the Lake Superior Chippewa Ojibwe Tribe,
and he's proud of his culture.
- Devon: I participate in ceremonies, and I spearfish,
and I harvest wild rice and I hunt.
Being Native American
means I might be
the minority of a group
or, in cases, at the school I am,
but I honestly don't have that label on me
because I'm such a role model in the school
that people really don't see color in me
and I'm more of a human than anything.
But it still means
that I try to teach others
not to see color.
I'm going to Haskell University
in Lawrence, Kansas,
and I'm going there
because it's an all-Native American school.
I'd like to come back here
and teach history and Native American history
and hopefully,
teach my language, Ojibwe.
I want to be a role model in the community.
I want to be the teacher that makes a D-
feel like the Congressional Medal of Honor,
an A- feel like a shot in the gut
because both push people
to do their hardest.
And I want those daydreamers
to be dream chasers
into dream catchers.
Hopefully, I can help this community
and make it even better than it was when I left it.