Background
Annie Dodge Wauneka was born in 1910 on this reservation in Arizona.
What is the Navajo Nation
As a child, Annie witnessed this deadly epidemic that motivated her to help her people.
What is the influenza epidemic?
Annie created this dictionary to help doctors and Navajo patients understand each other.
What is the English-Navajo medical dictionary?
Annie was known for leading with this caring quality.
What is empathy?
She was the first woman elected to the Navajo tribal Council in this year.
Annie wanted to improve these two major parts of life for her tribe.
What are health and living conditions?
She helped educate people about this infectious disease that affects the lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
She worked closely with both her community and these health officials.
Who are government health officials?
Annie studied public health at this university.
What is the University of Arizona?
She helped her community by combining modern medicine with what values?
What are traditional Navajo values?
Annie shared health tips every week through this form of communication.
What is the radio?
Annie incorporated what two cultural elements into her health education?
What are Navajo traditions and language?
As the chair of this committee, Annie led efforts to improve health, nutrition, and sanitation for her people.
What is the Health and Welfare Committee?
During the influenza epidemic, who did she specifically see die that motivated her to act?
Who are her classmates?
Annie improved these two living conditions in her community.
What are housing and sanitation conditions?
Annie's leadership can be described with these three words.
What are compassionate, educational, and culturally grounded?