Annie Dodge Wauneka

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1910 – 1997

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Who was Annie Dodge Wauneka?

Annie Dodge Wauneka was an influential member of the Navajo Nation as member of the Navajo Nation Council. As a member and three term head of the Council's Health and Welfare Committee, she worked to improve the health and education of the Navajo. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by Lyndon B. Johnson as well as the Indian Council Fire Achievement Award and the Navajo Medal of Honor. She also received an honorary doctorate in Humanities from the University of New Mexico.

Annie Dodge Wauneka was the daughter of the Navajo leader Henry Chee Dodge and his third wife Keehanabah or Mary Shirley Begaye of Deer Spring, Arizona. Keehanabah was forced to marry Chee and unwillingly lived with him, often returning to her family in the Deer Spring area. It was during this time Annie was born, approximately 2.5 miles south of current day Sawmill, Arizona. Chee's first wife, Nanabah, raised Annie along with three other of Chee's children. Having been raised by her father, a successful rancher, Annie lived a privileged life for a Navajo girl of her time. Annie visited with her mother Keehanabah in later years, until her mothers death in 1977.

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Born
Apr 11, 1910
Navajo Nation
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Education
  • University of Arizona
Died
Nov 10, 1997

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on July 23, 2013

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