Essay About Dr. Theodore Jojola And Wilma Mankiller

A Legacy of Distinction
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A Legacy of Distinction
1) Dr. Theodore Jojola, Native American Political Scientist
2) Dr. Rennard Strickland, Native American Professor of Law and
History, University of Tulsa
1) Mark Monroe (Sioux), Director of American Indian Council
1) Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne, Hodulgee, Muscogee), Poet, Writer,
Lecturer, Policy Analyst, President & Executive Director of the
Morningstar Institute, Washington D.C.
1) Chief Oren Lyons (Onondaga), Director of American Studies, Univ. of
Buffalo, Faithkeeper- Iroquois Confederacy
2) Dr. Beatrice Medicine, Director of Native Studies, Univ. of Calgary
1) Lucy Tapahonso, Poet, Professor of English & American Indian Studies
Univ. of Arizona
1) Dr. Elgin Badwound, President, Ogala Lakota College
1) Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee), Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation
1) John Mohawk, Professor of Native American Studies
1) Peterson Zah (Navajo), former Chairman of Navajo Tribal Council, past
President of the Navajo Nation, Special Advisor to Arizona State
Univ. President
1) Dr. Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo, Sioux), Writer, Literary
Scholar & Critic, Professor of English
The “Rediscovery: Americas Indian Heritage”
Special Columbus Quincentenary Program
1) Chief Leon Shenandoah (Onondaga), Tadaho, Iroquois Confederacy
Presided over WVUs first Peace Tree Ceremony (now deceased)
2) Robert Talltree (Chippewa), Silversmith, Storyteller, Award-wining
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3) Dr. James Axtell, Historian
4) Dr. Larry Zimmerman, Anthropologist
5) Donald Tenoso (Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux), Doll-Maker, Smithsonian
Institute Exhibitor
6) Beverly Singer, Film Maker, Health Educator