degree: Elizabeth Anne Parent (Athabascan). First Native American woman to graduate from West Point: Brigitte T. Wahwassuck (unknown tribal affiliation). 1985 First woman to become a Cherokee Nation principal chief: Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee Nation). First Native American to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for race relations: Clifford Bahniptewa (Hopi). 1986 First Native American ordained as Roman Catholic bishop: Donald E. Pelotte (Abenaki). First public recognition of the military service of the Choctaw code talkers. First American Indian Week celebrated during the week of November 23–30. 1987 First Native American to become a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation: Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo). First Native American woman named as Ms. magazine's Woman of the Year: Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee Nation). First community-owned and operated clinic established on an Indian reservation: Porcupine Clinic by Loralei DeCora (Winnebago). First woman to elected as governor of the Isleta Pueblo: Verna Williamson (Isleta Pueblo). First woman in the Eastern Band of Cherokee to become a Western physician: Frances Owl-Smith (Cherokee). 1988 First woman elected as tribal chair of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa: Twila Martin-Kehahbah (Chippewa-Cree). First Tuscarora Indian woman to become a Western surgeon: Susan Veronica Karol (Tuscarora Indian Nation of Sanborn). 1989 First book of poetry in Navajo is published by Rex Lee Jim (Navajo). First Native American news reporter on national television: Hattie Kauffman (Nez Percé). First Native American in Nevada to become a Western physician: Sharon M. Malotte (Shoshone). 1990s 1990 First Native American to win in a World Chess Championship open: Jason Stevens (Navajo). First Native American Month celebrated in November. 1991 First Native American to receive the Freeman Tilden Award from the National Park Service and the National Parks and Conservation Association: Wilson Hunter (Navajo). First Native American state attorney general: Larry Echo Hawk (Pawnee). 1993 First play-by-play of an NBA game in a Native language is broadcast in Navajo. 1994 First Native American to work as U.S. Marshall in the Justice Department: Robert D. Ecoffey (Oglala Lakota Sioux). First Navajo woman board certified in surgery: Lori Arviso Alvord (Navajo). 1995 First Native American artwork travels in space: Don Montileaux's (Lakota) painting is on board the Endeavor. First woman to serve as principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians: Joyce Dugan (Cherokee). First Native American woman to play professional basketball for a foreign nation: Ryneldi Becenti (Navajo). 1996 First Native American woman elected to the New Mexico