University to celebrate Roe Cloud centennial- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut
By Register Staff
NEW HAVEN — The Native American Cultural Center community at Yale will welcome Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, and extended members of the Yale community at 5 p.m. Thursday to mark the beginning of the Henry Roe Cloud (class of 1910) Centennial commemorations.
As the first known American Indian graduate of Yale College, Roe Cloud’s prominence has grown in recent years as students, faculty and alumni have learned more about the accomplished educational reformer. A member of the Winnebago Nation of Nebraska, Roe Cloud worked tirelessly against the federal government’s assimilation campaign that targeted the most vulnerable members within Native American society — children, often by removing them from their parents and community’s care for years on end.
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