2026-08-09 12:23 UTC
Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).
Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls. 🧵1/
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@minouette@spore.social 2026-08-09 12:24
She went to Northeastern State Teacher’s College in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and earned a bachelor’s in math by the time she was 20. She taught science and math through the Depression then got her Master’s and put her education to work to try to help Indigenous people and worked as a statistician with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, until she was reassigned as an advisor to girls at the Santa Fe Indian School. When WWII broke out her father suggested she find a technical job in California. 🧵2/
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@futureleader1@mastodon.social 2026-08-09 12:31
@minouette@spore.social Happy birthday my dha fellow arter....