The Cherokee Mathematician Who Helped Design America’s Space Age – While Much Of Her Work Remained Secret
You cannot manufacture it.
You either have it or you do not, and she had it in a form that very few people in American history have possessed.
She used it consistently, for thirty-five years, in service of a clear and specific goal: making it more possible for Native youth to pursue the mathematical and scientific education that she had pursued, and to reach the professional levels that she had reached.
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