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620:(RCC). On January 6, 1992, Marule became president of RCC. At RCC, she developed curriculum focused on the needs of indigenous students. She led the creation of the Kainai Studies Program and the Niitsitapi Teacher Education program, to communicate and promote Kainai traditions and knowledge through institutions under their own leadership. Marule aimed to increase the importance of education to her local indigenous community. In other initiatives, Marule connected First Nations knowledge and culture to academic programs in nursing, agriculture, and science. In June 2006, RCC graduated jointly with the U of L its first group of First Nations teachers trained in the Blackfoot Education curriculum. Marule retired as president of RCC in 2014. She was succeeded by 596:. Attendees included representatives and delegates from Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Greenland, Colombia, and Norway. Marule served as the chief administrator of the WCIP. She was the secretary-treasurer of the NIB for several years and later as executive director with Manuel as president. Marule served as chair of the Blood Tribe Police Commission, the Blood Tribe Elections Appeal Board, and the Indian News Media, and as secretary of the 143: 616:(U of L) in February 1976 as an associated professional officer in the Native Students' Association. Later in 1976, she worked as an academic assistant. In 1983, Marule became an assistant professor of Native American studies in the area of politics and economic development. She left U of L in June 1989 to join 632:
Marule died on December 31, 2014. A memorial service was held on January 10, 2015, at Senator Gladstone Hall on the Blood Tribe Reservation. She had helped to preserve indigenous cultures and language through education, promoting higher learning locally, nationally and internationally. Marule
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developed inclusive curricula so that education respected cultural heritage and indigenous identity. In 2019, RCC graduated the first class of its Indigenous Bachelor of Social Work program, which was the result of a task force Marule created to assess the community's need for professionals.
577:, facilitating meetings with the Tanzanian ambassador to Sweden, Michael Lukumbuzya, and Chinese embassy officials. Jacob Marule and Manuel spoke with these officials about Third and Fourth World liberation and the possibility of the NIB visiting the 551:, Marule was hired by Manuel as an executive assistant at the NIB in Ottawa. She brought an academic perception to the organization which Manuel had lacked. In March 1972, Marule attended the Native Women's Conference to discuss the 463:
At the suggestion of the U of A's Dean of Women, Mary Saretta Sparling, Smallface became one of the first indigenous women to travel to Africa with the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO, now known as
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in June 2010. In 2014, Marule received the Esqoao Dorothy McDonald Leadership Award and the Circle of Honour from the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women.
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for two decades, and led the creation of several indigenous studies programs. She was previously an assistant professor of Native American studies at the
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from African graduate students. In 1966, Smallface was one of the first indigenous women to earn a BA in sociology and anthropology at U of A.
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accident left her in a hospital in Lusaka for six to eight weeks. In the fall of 1970, Marule and her husband Jacob moved to
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For her advocacy work in education and the human rights of aboriginal peoples around the world, Marule received the 1995
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Marie Smallface was born in 1944 to Emil and Olive Smallface. She had numerous siblings and was raised on the
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Disinherited Generations: Our Struggle to Reclaim Treaty Rights for First Nations Women and Their Descendants
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Marule helped to plan the first WCIP conference, held in October 1975, and used her contacts in the
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of Indian women married to non-status individuals. As a result of the act, Indian women become
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Decolonization, Indigenous Internationalism, and the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
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Miller, Christine; Chuchryk, Patricia; with Marie Smallface Marule (August 15, 1996).
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presented her with a doctor of letters in 2006. She received a doctor of law from
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and was a well-known quilter. Smallface and six other students attended school in
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American Empire and the Fourth World: The Bowl With One Spoon, Part One
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Carlson, Nellie; Goyette, Linda; Steinhauer, Kathleen (July 3, 2013).
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for outstanding community and education service. Marule received the
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groups including the National Indian Council (a predecessor of the
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Indian priest. Her older brother Allan Smallface served in the
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in 2005 for her work in community and education development.
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prominent in Lusaka when Marule met him. Marule traveled to
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After being recommended by her U of A colleague,
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Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education
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to this revision, which may differ significantly from the
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Women of the First Nations: Power, Wisdom, and Strength
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Marule taught community development and literacy at
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Portrait photograph of a woman before a clapboard building.
Red Crow Community College
Roy Weasel Fat
Blood Indian Reservation
Alberta
Alma mater
University of Alberta
National Aboriginal Achievement Award
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
Alberta Centennial Medal
Native American studies
Nicola Valley Institute of Technology
University of Lethbridge
National Indian Brotherhood
World Council of Indigenous Peoples

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