Henry Roe Cloud

Henry Roe Cloud was a HoChunk Native American, enrolled in the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, who served as an educator, college administrator, U.S. federal government official , Presbyterian minister, and reformer.

Henry Roe Cloud was born December 28, 1884, a member of the Bird Clan, on the Winnebago Reservation in northeastern Nebraska and was orphaned when his parents died in 1896 and 1897. After his education in a series of government schools, his intellectual ambition, academic performance, and personal qualities brought him in 1901 to the private Mount Hermon Preparatory School in Massachusetts. He financed his education through the schools workstudy program and was introduced to the social circles of Americas ruling elite. He graduated a salutatorian in 1906 and the school served as his conduit into the Ivy League.

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