Investing in the Next Generations: The Association's Scholarship Legacy

​By: CC Hovie and Kay Kkendasot Mattena

In 1947, Florence Ivy Begay, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, became the first student to receive a scholarship from the Association on American Indian Affairs (the Association). Florence had just graduated high school with straight A’s—one of only three students in her school’s history to do so. She dreamed of becoming a doctor so that she could return home and serve her Nation.

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