Peterson, Helen L.

Helen L. Peterson, born in 1915 on the Pine Ridge Reservation, is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux tribe. She attended Chadron State College in 1932, beginning an educational process that included course work at Colorado State College of Education and the University of Colorado. She received a B.S. degree in Business Education from Chadron State College in 1957.

Her first important job was with the Department of Agriculture's Resettlement Administration, a New Deal Agency, in 1935. She served as director of the Rocky Mountain Council on Inter-American Affairs at the University of Denver Social Science Foundation and set up the Colorado Inter-American Field Service Program which later came under the Extension Division of the University of Colorado.

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