2018 Circle of Honor - Dr. Henrietta Mann

2018 Circle of Honor

Honoring Dr. Henrietta Mann

Dr. Henrietta Mann, Tsetsehestaestse (Cheyenne), is the retired founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College.  In 2000 she became the first individual to occupy the Katz Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University, where she is Professor Emerita, and was the Special Assistant to the President until 2016.  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 Student 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 MONEY Magazine named her a MONEY Hero Award Winner, one of 50 Unsung Heroes/50 States, conferred for her extraordinary work with the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College in improving the financial well-being of others.

In 2016 she was one of two Native Americans ever to be elected to the National Academy of Education.  Indian Country Today has included her in its 2016 “50 Faces of Indian Country.”  Dr. Mann lives in Weatherford, Oklahoma and continues to serve on boards for her tribes, for the State of Oklahoma, and for our country at the national and international levels. 

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