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Article: Elsie Meeks: First Native American To Serve on Commission.(Interview)
- Article from:
- Civil Rights Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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Elsie M. Meeks was born in Kadoka, S.D. in 1953 and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. After studies at Oglala Lakota College, Ms. Meeks applied her skills as assistant manager and bookkeepper at the Cedar Pass Lodge and served as finance officer and accountant for the newly formed Lakota Fund, a non-profit community development corporation which provides financial and housing assistance, business classes, and start-up counseling to small business owners and micro-enterprises on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She was appointed Executive Director of the Fund in 1991. Under her supervision the Fund has seen ...