Edmund Manydeeds, who becomes the First Native American on Wisconsin’s Board of Regents that oversees higher education, says he sees himself as a role model – not just for other Natives, but for all minorities.

Manydeeds, who is an attorney and an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, in South Dakota, says his background gives him an awareness of the importance of higher education – and the need for that education to be accessible, according to this Associated Press report.

For a profile of Manydeeds, see this Chippewa Valley Business Report story, in which Manydeeds talks of his long experience as an attorney, his childhood on different reservations, and yes, his desire to be a role model.

Gwen Florio

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