Rate My Professor Henrietta Mann

Dr. Henrietta Mann, a full-blood Cheyenne enrolled with the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is Professor Emeritus of Native American Studies at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman, where she was the first occupant of the Katz Endowed Chair in Native American Studies from 2000 to 2003 and served as Special Assistant to the President from 2003 to 2016. She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico in 1982, with a dissertation titled Cheyenne-Arapaho Education: 1871-1982, which received the Eugene M. Kayden Award for best manuscript in the humanities and was published as a book. Her academic background also includes an M.A. in English from Oklahoma State University in 1970 and a B.A. in Education (English) from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1954. Prior to MSU, Mann was Director and Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana in Missoula for 28 years. She held visiting positions at Harvard University Graduate School of Education, University of California Berkeley, and Haskell Indian Nations University. In federal service, she served as Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs and Deputy to the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1986 to 1987, and as National Coordinator of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Coalition for the Association on American Indian Affairs.