Henry Roe (1884–1950) was a Native American who distinguished himself as an educator, college administrator, U.S. Federal Government official (in the precursor to the Bureau of Indian Affairs), Presbyterian minister, and reformer.
Henry Roe Cloud was born December 28, 1884, a member of the powerful Bird Clan, on a Winnebago Indian reservation in northeastern Nebraska and was orphaned when his parents died in 1896 and 1897. After being taught in a...
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Henry Roe (1884–1950) was a Native American who distinguished himself as an educator, college administrator, U.S. Federal Government official (in the precursor to the Bureau of Indian Affairs), Presbyterian minister, and reformer.
Henry Roe Cloud was born December 28, 1884, a member of the powerful Bird Clan, on a Winnebago Indian 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 (now Northfield Mount Hermon 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 is believed to have been the first full-blood Native American to attend Yale...
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