Henry Roe was a Native American who distinguished himself as an educator, college administrator, U.S. Federal Government official, Presbyterian minister, and reformer. Henry Roe Cloud was born December 28, 1884, a member of the powerful Bird Clan, on the Winnebago Reservation in northeastern Nebraska and was orphaned when his parents died in 1896 and 1897. After being taught in a series of government schools, his intellectual ambition, academic performance and personal qualities brought him in 1901 to the private Mount Hermon Preparatory School in Massachusetts, which had a work-study program he drew on to finance his education, and which brought him into the social circles of America's ruling elite. He graduated a salutatorian in 1906 and the school served as his conduit into the Ivy League. Cloud was the first full-blood Native American to attend Yale College, graduating in 1910, and earning a Master's Degree there in 1912. He was a campus celebrity, not just because of his background but also due to the force of his personality and speaking skill and, in an era when rhetoric was an art, he was especially accomplished, attracting large audiences on campus and in national venues. One measure of his prestige as an undergraduate was being tapped for the Yale senior society, Elihu. Wikipedia [ - ]

Henry Roe was a Native American who distinguished himself as an educator, college administrator,... [ + ]