Nancy Dumont
{{short description|Native American organizer and education leader}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nancy Dumont
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|1|7}}
| birth_place = Poplar, Montana
| death_date = {{Death year and age|2002|1936|10}}
| death_place = Wolf Point, Montana, U.S.
| citizenship = Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, United States
| relatives = Robert V. Dumont, Jr. (brother)
}}
Nancy Dumont (1936–2002) was a Native American educational leader who lived in and worked in Chicago, Illinois and Montana.{{cite news |title=Nancy Dumont |url=https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/nancy-dumont/article_29512154-bb3b-553f-a36a-ec99b5461634.html |accessdate=28 October 2020 |work=The Billings Gazette |issue=26 October 2002 |publisher=Billings Gazette}}
Life and education
An Assiniboine citizen of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Dumont grew up in the area of Wolf Point, Montana. After high school, she attended Haskell Institute where she graduated with a degree in business. In 1966, she moved to Chicago to attend Northwestern University where she earned a second BA. She returned to Montana briefly in the mid-1970s, relocated to the Midwest a second time to do a master's degree at the University of Chicago in 1983, and then returned to Montana.
Career
Dumont become an active leader in the Chicago Native American community and was part of the second generation of Native American leaders of the city's American Indian Center, which had been established by Willard LaMere and others in 1953.{{cite journal |last1=Laukaitis |first1=John J. |title=American Indian organizational education in Chicago: the Community Board Training Project, 1979-1989 |journal=American Educational History Journal |date=2009 |volume=36 |issue= 1–2 |pages=445+ |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A252849400/AONE?u=northwestern&sid=AONE&xid=859b0c47 |accessdate=17 October 2020}} She served on the founding board of directors of the Native American Educational Services College, the first urban institution of higher learning designed, managed, and serving Native Americans.{{cite web |title=NAES College: History |url=https://naes.info/history/ |website=NAES.info |publisher=American Indian Association of Illinois |accessdate=28 October 2020}} The college was based on an initial set of proposals for a degree-granting institution combining academic and tribal knowledges that was drafted by a committee including her brother, Robert V. Dumont.{{cite web |title=NAES College History |url=https://naes.info/history/ |website=NAES.info |publisher=NAES College |access-date=24 November 2020}}
After returning to Montana in the 1980s, she worked at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation's Education Department, in Indian Child Welfare Programs, and in alcohol programs. She also served as the Federal Projects Coordinator at Wolf Point Public Schools.{{cite book |title=Directory of Indian Education Programs in Montana |date=October 1990 |publisher=Montana Indian Education Advisory Council and the Office of Public Instruction |location=Helena, Montana |page=7 |edition=Revised |url=https://archive.org/details/directoryofindia1990mont/page/9/mode/2up |accessdate=28 October 2020}}
See also
{{Portal|Indigenous peoples of the Americas}}
References
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External links
- [https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/nancy-dumont/article_29512154-bb3b-553f-a36a-ec99b5461634.html Nancy Dumont obituary]
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Category:20th-century Native American leaders
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Category:Haskell Indian Junior College alumni
Category:Native American educators
Category:American women educators