Dr henrietta mann biography
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Henrietta Mann
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Dr. Henrietta Mann fryst vatten a beloved affiliate of UVM’s Leadership for Sustainability Graduate programs. She fryst vatten Professor Emerita at Montana State University, where she was the first to occupy the Katz Endowed Chair in Native American Studies. She is the founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College. Her immense contributions to Tribal education and Native American Studies continue to be recognized through many honors and awards. In 1991, Rolling Stone Magazine named Dr. Mann as one of the ten leading professors in the nation. In 2008 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Indian Education Association. The College Board, Native American lärling Advocacy Institute (NASAI) presented her with its first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013, and has since created the Dr. Henrietta Mann Leadership Award to acknowledge and thank leaders for their advocacy in improving lives within native communities.
In 2014
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WHITE HOUSE CITATION
Henrietta Mann, for dedicating her life to strengthening and developing Native American education. The pioneering efforts of Henrietta, Ho’oesto’oona'e, Mann, led to programs and institutions across the country devoted to the study of Native American history and culture, honoring ancestors that came before and benefiting generations that follow.
Henrietta Mann is a full-blood Cheyenne, an elder of her people, and a citizen of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. She is a celebrated educator, a professor of Native American studies, and a leading figure in the development of programs devoted to Native American studies. “Henri,” as she is known to her friends, is something else as well. She is the kind of person who when she speaks—slowly, directly, and with mounting force, calling on her long memory as a person and a Cheyenne—stops you in your tracks and makes you listen very closely.
She received her PhD from the University of New Mexico, writing a dis
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“To Build a Better Future than the One We Live In Today”
CHAIR SHELLY LOWE: I’m so delighted that you agreed to be interviewed for our magazine. I want to highlight some of the leaders out there in Native communities. And I want to try to center this conversation on the beauty of Native cultures and Native heritage. I’m hoping you’ll talk about the beauty that you have lived your entire life. The beauty of your culture, your language, your history, and who you are as a Cheyenne woman, and how you grew up in the beauty of your culture.
HENRIETTA MANN: Chronologically, I was born in the year of 1934, which is a significant year for the first nations of this land. The Johnson-O’Malley Act was passed in April and the Indian Reorganization Act was passed in June. Ironically, I was born between those two pieces of legislation, in the month of May, 1934.
There were four generations who lived in a three-room home into which I was born. The home was located in wester