In my introductory remarks, I mentioned we are now in Native American Heritage Month. The designation of November as “National American Indian Heritage Month” goes back to a joint congressional resolution signed by President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990. Over the years, the name shifted to National Native American Heritage Month.
From astronauts to doctors to an archaeologist, we present eight scientists whose contributions to science, engineering and math were inseparable from their identities as Indigenous Americans.
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Mann, who grew up in Penngrove, appeared before a crowd of between 800 and 1,000 people at Sonoma State University’s Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall Wednesday as part of The Press Democrat’s Women in Conversation Speaker Series.