Notable Achievements
- First member of the Menominee Tribe to graduate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1957)
- First member of the Menominee Tribe to receive a master's degree (1961)
- First woman to serve as chair of the Menominee Restoration Committee (1974)
- Pollitzer Award, Ethical Cultural Society, N.Y. (1975)
- First Native American woman to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1993)
- Included as one of 51 "accomplished practitioners and educators" in the book Celebrating Social Work: Faces and Voices of the Formative Years (Council on Social Work Education, 2003)
- In 2000 she was a National Women's History Month honoree.
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