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by Nick Vander Puy
Reserve, Wisconsin (LCOTV)
Ada Deer was the first member of the Menominee Nation to graduate from UW-Madison. She was the first woman to chair the Menominee tribe. She has a masters degree in social work from Columbia and served in the Clinton administration from 1993-1997 as head of the BIA.
Last year she retired from running the American Indian studies program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Reserve, Wisconsin (LCOTV)
Ada Deer was the first member of the Menominee Nation to graduate from UW-Madison. She was the first woman to chair the Menominee tribe. She has a masters degree in social work from Columbia and served in the Clinton administration from 1993-1997 as head of the BIA.
Last year she retired from running the American Indian studies program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
