Studies at MSU. Retiring from teaching in 2003, Mann became a special advisor to the president of Montana State University. She served as one of the trustees who guided the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in 2004. In 2008, she was honored by the National Indian Education Association with a lifetime achievement award and in 2016, she became one of only two American Indians elected to the National Academy of Education. Selected works References Citations Bibliography and and 1934 births Living people People from Clinton, Oklahoma Southwestern Oklahoma State University alumni Oklahoma State University alumni University of New Mexico alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty University of Montana faculty Montana State University faculty Native American activists Native American academics Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes people Activists from Oklahoma Academics from Oklahoma 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American women academics Native American studies 20th-century Native American women 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century Native American women 21st-century Native Americans