Post by Okwes on Jan 29, 2008 17:42:42 GMT -5
Native American leader Heart dies
Monday, January 28, 2008
Carole Anne Heart, the executive director of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board died Friday, Jan. 25, at Rapid City Regional Hospital Auxiliary Hospice House after a battle with cancer.
Heart, 61, served as president of the National Indian Education Association in 2001.
“Carole Anne Heart, Sicangu Lakota, had a great spirit that illuminated her work and her life,” said current NIEA president Willard Sakiestewa Gilbert.
Heart was an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Yankton Sioux Tribe.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Carole Anne Heart, the executive director of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board died Friday, Jan. 25, at Rapid City Regional Hospital Auxiliary Hospice House after a battle with cancer.
Heart, 61, served as president of the National Indian Education Association in 2001.
“Carole Anne Heart, Sicangu Lakota, had a great spirit that illuminated her work and her life,” said current NIEA president Willard Sakiestewa Gilbert.
Heart was an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Yankton Sioux Tribe.