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Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee was born on 9 December, 1910 in Meskwaki Settlement, is an activist. Discover Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 113 years old?

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Age 114 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 9 December 1910
Birthday 9 December
Birthplace Meskwaki Settlement
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Nationality Oman

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2020

A park near Marion, Iowa was renamed in 2020 from Squaw Creek Park to Wanatee Park in honor of Wanatee's activism. It was the first instance of a public space in Iowa renamed to recognize Indigenous Iowans.

In 2020 the editors of USA Today published the "Women of the Century" project in commemoration of the 19th Amendment, asking experts from each state to identify ten women who made significant accomplishments in the period of 1920 to 2020. Wanatee was one of the ten women recognized for their important work within the state of Iowa.

1996

She died in Tama on October 15, 1996, and was buried in the Meskwaki Cemetery.

1993

In 1993, she became the first Native American to be inducted as a member of the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.

1978

When she returned to Iowa after graduating from the Haskell Institute, Wanatee worked at the Sac and Fox Day School, teaching sewing, cooking, art, and the Meskwaki language. After her own experience of being sent to a distant boarding school, she believed that Native American children should be educated close to home, and worked on state and national committees to prevent Native children from routinely being sent to assimilationist boarding schools. She served as the chair of the school board of the Meskwaki, and she was a founding member of the Coalition of Indian-Controlled School Boards, an organization dedicated to parental and community control of Indian education. She also wrote a chapter titled "Education, the Family, and the Schools" in the 1978 book The Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives on American Indians in Iowa.

1932

She married Frank David Wanatee in 1932; they had nine children, though two died as young children.

1923

Adeline attended the Sac and Fox Day School until 1923, when she was sent to a government boarding school, the Flandreau Indian School on the Flandreau Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In the eighth grade she returned to attend public schools in Tama. She went on to earn a degree from the Haskell Institute in 1931.

1910

Jean Adeline Morgan Wanatee (December 9, 1910 – October 15, 1996) was a Meskwaki activist for Native American and women's rights. Wanatee was an artist and tribal leader dedicated to preserving and sharing the traditional culture and language of the Meskwaki. She was the first woman elected to the Meskwaki Tribal Council and the first Native American to be inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.

Jean Adeline Morgan was born on December 9, 1910, on the Meskwaki Settlement near Tama, Iowa. She was a member of the Wolf clan; her parents were Earl Morgan and Annie Waseskuk Morgan. Her father died when she was nine months old; she and her mother moved in with her grandmother until her mother remarried. She was known by friends as "Adeline".