A Legacy of Distinction

A Legacy of Distinction

1982 1) Dr. Theodore Jojola, Native American Political Scientist
2) Dr. Rennard Strickland, Native American Professor of Law and
History, University of Tulsa

1983 1) Mark Monroe (Sioux), Director of American Indian Council

1984 1) Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne, Hodulgee,   Muscogee), Poet, Writer,
Lecturer, Policy Analyst, President & Executive Director of the
Morningstar Institute, Washington D.C.

1985 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

1986 1) Lucy Tapahonso, Poet, Professor of English & American Indian Studies
Univ. of Arizona

1987 1) Dr. Elgin Badwound, President, Ogala Lakota College

1988 1) Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee), Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation

1989 1) John Mohawk, Professor of Native American Studies

1990 1) Peterson Zah (Navajo), former Chairman of Navajo Tribal Council, past
President of the Navajo Nation, Special Advisor to Arizona State
Univ. President

1991 1) Dr. Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo, Sioux), Writer, Literary
Scholar & Critic, Professor of English

1992 The "Rediscovery: America's Indian Heritage"
Special Columbus Quincentenary Program

1) Chief Leon Shenandoah (Onondaga), Tadaho, Iroquois Confederacy
Presided over WVU's first Peace Tree Ceremony (now deceased)
2) Robert Talltree (Chippewa), Silversmith, Storyteller, Award-wining
fluteplayer
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
7) Joseph Bruchac, Author, Story Teller

1993 1) Peterson Zah (Navajo), former Chairman of Navajo Tribal Council, past
President of the Navajo Nation, Special Advisor to Arizona State
Univ.... [continues]

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