Rebecca Adamson (born 1950) is an American Cherokee businessperson and
advocate. She is former director, former president, and founder of
First Nations Development Institute and the founder of First Peoples
Worldwide.Born in Akron, Ohio, to a Swedish American father and a
Cherokee mother, Adamson grew up in Akron and spent summers with her
Cherokee grandmother in Lumberton, North Carolina where she learned
about the history and culture of her Cherokee people. She holds a
master of science in economic development from the Southern New
Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches a
graduate course on indigenous economics.After graduating from
Firestone High School in Akron in 1967, she studied philosophy at the
University of Akron and then took courses in law and economics at
Piedmont College in Georgia. Adamson left college in 1970 to work on
western reservations to help end the practice of removing Native
American children from their homes and placing them in government or
missionary-ran boarding schools in the hope of destroying their
connections to their native languages and cultures.
advocate. She is former director, former president, and founder of
First Nations Development Institute and the founder of First Peoples
Worldwide.Born in Akron, Ohio, to a Swedish American father and a
Cherokee mother, Adamson grew up in Akron and spent summers with her
Cherokee grandmother in Lumberton, North Carolina where she learned
about the history and culture of her Cherokee people. She holds a
master of science in economic development from the Southern New
Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches a
graduate course on indigenous economics.After graduating from
Firestone High School in Akron in 1967, she studied philosophy at the
University of Akron and then took courses in law and economics at
Piedmont College in Georgia. Adamson left college in 1970 to work on
western reservations to help end the practice of removing Native
American children from their homes and placing them in government or
missionary-ran boarding schools in the hope of destroying their
connections to their native languages and cultures.
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