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Dr. Janine Pease is the founding president of the Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency Montana, a past president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (for two terms), a director of the American Indian College Fund (for seven years), and was appointed by President Clinton to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (for eight years).

She wrote the introduction forLight on the Indian World: Selected Writings of Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman), edited by Michael Oren Fitzgerald. Dr. Pease is also the author of the foreword to The Spirit of Indian Women.

Dr. Pease has won several prestigious awards: National Indian Educator of the Year (1990), The MacArthur Fellowship Award (better known as the “Genius Award”) and the ACLU Jeanette Rankin Award. She has been named one of the “One Hundred Montanan’s of the Century” by the Missoulian Magazine, a “Montanans To Remember” by Montana Magazine, and one of the 14 most important American Indians leaders of the 20th century in New Warriors, by R. David Edmunds (University of Nebraska Press).

She is also the recipient of Honorary Doctorate degrees from six different colleges and universities. Janine is a Crow and Hidatsa Indian, enrolled as a Crow. She has two adult children and lives in Lodge Grass, Montana.