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Department of Native American Studies
Emeritus Katz Endowed Chair
Henrietta Mann
Brief Biography of Chair Emeritus, Dr. Henrietta Mann
Dr. Henri Mann is a full-blood Cheyenne enrolled with the
Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, and is the Endowed
Chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University,
Bozeman. She taught at the University of Montana, Missoula
for twenty-eight years where she was a Professor of Native
American Studies. She also has taught at the University
of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; and Haskell
Indian Nations University located in Lawrence, Kansas. Dr.
Mann has served as the Director of the Office of Indian
Education Programs and Deputy to the Assistant Secretary
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She also was the National
Coordinator of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act
Coalition for the Association of American Indian Affairs.
In 1991, Rolling Stone Magazine named her one of the ten
leading professors in the nation. She has been an interviewee
and consultant for several television and movie productions
and has lectured throughout the United States and in Mexico,
Canada, Germany, Italy, and New Zealand.
VITAE
HENRIETTA
MANN
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT
henrim@montana.edu
Classes taught
American Indian Religions and Philosophical Thought
American Indian Literature
Seminar: Community Building
Books
written
Cheyenne-Arapaho Education: 1871-1982
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