Crow (Lakota). First Native American woman dentist: Jessica Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation). First woman to chair the Yavapai-Apache Tribe: Vera Brown Starr (Yavapai-Apache). First tribally owned and built golf course is opened by the Mescalero Apache Tribe. 1976 First American Indian Studies master's degree program established by Charlotte Anne Wilson Heth (Cherokee). First Jicarilla Apache woman to earn a doctorate degree: Veronica Velarde Tiller. First radio station broadcasting in the Navajo language and under Navajo control: The Navajo Radio Network. First chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe: Mildred Cleghorn (Fort Sill Apache). First Alaska Native to become a physician: Ted Mala (Inupiaq). 1977 First Inuit Circumpoloar Conference takes place. 1978 First Native American artist to display their work in China: Joan Hill (Muscogee). First woman to serve as chair of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes: Juanita L. Learned (Cheyenne-Arapaho). First person of Native American descent to earn a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health and the American Psychiatric Association: Catharine Gail Kincaid (Eastern Dakota descent). 1980s 1980 First Native American woman nominated for Vice President of the United States in any political party: LaDonna Harris (Comanche). First Native American woman to head the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA): Ramona Sakiestewa (Hopi) 1981 First Native American woman to graduate from the United States Naval Academy: Sandra L. Hinds (unknown tribal affiliation). First American to direct the Paris Opera ballet: Rosella Hightower (Choctaw Nation). 1982 First Native American elected to the Colorado House of Representatives: Benjamin Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne). First Native American woman to graduate from the United States Air Force Academy: Dolores K. Smith (Cherokee). First Native American director of Indian Health Services (IHS): Everett R. Rhoades (Kiowa). First tribe to open an electric plant: Warm Spring Indians in Oregon. 1983 First woman to work as attorney general for the Navajo Nation: Claudeen Bates Arthur (Navajo). First Native American woman to argue a successful case before the Supreme Court of the United States: Arlinda Locklear (Lumbee). First anthology of Native American women's art and literature is published: A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Women edited by Beth Brant (Mohawk). First television documentary produced by a crew of all-Indigenous people: I'd Rather Be Powwowing, directed by Larry Littlebird (Kewa Pueblo). First Minnesota Ojibwe Nation woman to become a Western medical doctor: Kathleen Annette (White Earth Ojibwe). 1984 First Alaska Native woman to earn a doctorate