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» Native Scientists Taking Off

Native Americans are renowned as great artists. Their history as proud and courageous warriors is well known. And they are with equal measures of romanticism and reality revered as mystics exploring the edges of human consciousness and being. But today, laboring in obscurity, they are also electrical, aeronautical, software and materials engineers, research biologists, oil geologists, hydrologists, doctors of medicine, inventors and even astronauts.

» 2002 November/December
By Site Editor | Published 11/1/2002 | Navajo , Cherokee , Hopi , Chickasaw , 2002 , November/December

 ON THE COVER
Astronaut John Herrington (Chickasaw)
The first Native American tribal member in space blasts off November 10. And a look at the national organization that has played a pivotal role in their careers—the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. Photo courtesy NASA.

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