Faith Smith
Faith Smith is a Native American activist and educator. Her career included work at Chicago’s American Indian Center, with the Native American Committee, and most notably as the president of the Native American Educational Services College from 1974 to 2004. Early life Smith spent her early childhood on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin. She attended the Kinnamon School there. Her family relocated to Chicago, and she later attended and graduated from Purdue University in 1966. She commented that "because of affirmative action, colleges were vacuuming Indian communities across the country, finding the brightest Indians, but after college, a lot of them couldn't make the transition back home. They had changed. Their communities had changed." Career In the mid-1960s, Smith became involved with the National Indian Youth Council, the first independent Native American student organization. After graduating from Purdue University, she began working at the Chic ...
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