Shirley Hill Witt
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American poet, fiction and nonfiction writer
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#6592
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#9878
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#2983
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#2448
World Rank
#3129
Historical Rank
#1500
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Shirley Hill Witt is an anthropologist, educator, author, civil rights activist, and former foreign service officer. A member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan, Witt was one of the first Native American women to earn a Ph.D. She obtained her Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1969. Witt has published extensively on Native Americans in addition to being a poet and fiction writer. She was a founding member of the National Indian Youth Council and worked with them from 1961 to 1964. She also served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
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