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Ada Elizabeth Deer in an early newspaper article.
Ada Elizabeth Deer in an early newspaper article.
Ada Elizabeth Deer in an early newspaper article.
Ada Elizabeth Deer in an early newspaper article.
Ada Elizabeth Deer in an early newspaper article.
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Ada Elizabeth Deer
We are sharing an Ada Deer newspaper article in our archives from the 1950’s.
Ada Deer was born in Keshena, Wisconsin, on August 7, 1935 and grew up in Menominee County. She was an American scholar and civil servant who was a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and a Native American advocate. Deer served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. Due to all of her advocacy and organization on behalf of Native people, she was recognized as a social work pioneer by the National Associate of Social Workers in 2010.
This article shows a woman, that’s only 17, still in high school, that would do great things for her people and the country.