The Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School Library

Al Franken at Bug School

It’s been almost six months since so many of you donated more than 5,000 books and over $83,000 to stock the library at the new Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. I recently paid a visit to the school, and what I saw was thrilling. The library is stuffed with thousands of books. The kids are reading. In class. In study hall, And at home! Their parents are reading for fun and erudition.  And they’re reading kids’ books to their little kids. This is now a different world for these kids. The physical plant of the … Read More…