Marigold Linton
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Marigold Linton (1936 – death)is a cognitive psychologist and member of the Cahuilla-Cupeno tribe of Native Americans. In 1974 co–founded the National Indian Education Association. Her research in long term memory is widely cited in psychology. She is director for mathematics and science initiatives in the University of Texas system, where she is responsible bringing minority students into those two fields. She has been president of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science. [[1]] and [[2]] at Page 107.
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A great-great granddaughter of Antonio Garra, war chief of the Cupeno who organized an 1847 Indian insurrection against Agoston Haraszthy, San Diego County's first Sherrif[3], Marigold Linton was born on the Morongo Reservation in Southern California. Raised in poverty, she overcame hardship and adversity to become in 1954 the very first Indian from a California reservation to attend college. Attending the newly opened University of California, Riverside, she earned straight As and completed 2 publications by the time she entered graduate school at the University of Iowa, eventually obtaining her Ph.D. from UCLA [4].
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