Abstract
Dr Angelita Felix is a member of the Arikara tribe from the Fort Berthold Reservation of North Dakota. As a child, she attended a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) elementary school called the Wahpeton Indian School (now known as Circle of Nations School) and an all-girl Catholic boarding school for 3 years. She graduated from White Shield High School on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. She earned a bachelor's degree from Minot State University in North Dakota in English and Business Education, a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of South Dakota, and a doctorate in educational administration from Penn State University.
Dr Felix has more than 25 years of professional experience in Indian education. She taught language arts and worked as a curriculum writer and a curriculum director She also served as a dean of student services at Sitting Bull Tribal College and then as a dean of instruction at Haskell Indian Nations University. She has worked as a BIA education line officer (similar to a public school superintendent) at agencies in Arizona and North Dakota. During the past 2 years she has been the Supervisory Education Specialist over Exceptional Education for the BIA, Office of Indian Education Programs.
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