First Lady reads to kindergartners
The Navajo Nation’s first lady, Martha Shelly, reads and shows Walter Farley’s “Little Black, A Pony" to a kindergarten class in Window Rock Elementary School, on Thursday morning, March 24, 2011. First Lady Shelly read to two different classes as part of the National Education Association's Read Across America program. © 2011 Gallup Independent / Diego James Robles

By Diego James Robles
For the Independent 

WINDOW ROCK — Navajo Nation first lady Martha Shelly sat before two different classes of young, eager readers at the Window Rock Elementary School’s Parent Center on Thursday morning.

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