Marcella Rose LeBeau, a tribal citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux, lived a long life that was spent in service to others–in Indian Country and beyond–as a nurse, tribal councilor, and advocate. Born in Promise, South Dakota, her grandmother gave her Native name: Wigmunke’ Waste Win’, which means Pretty Rainbow Woman. Upon receiving a Leadership Award from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) during its winter session in Washington, D.C. in February 2020, LeBeau, 100, told a moving story of having treated a soldier, a tribal citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, who lost both of his legs during the war, and then meeting him some forty years later.
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From left to right, Elaina Saltclah, Los Alamos graduate student Bade Sayki and Arielle Platero, a member of the first cohort of Indigenous Women in Physics pilot program and now in graduate school. Photo Courtesy LANL LANL NEWS RELEASE Elaina Saltclah, from the Red Mesa, Arizona area, near the Four Corners, first introduces herself in…