Ada Deer - Notable Achievements

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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