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Awards and Honors

Gerald Mohatt - Received the Dstinguished Ancestor Award during the 2011 National Multicultural Conference and
Summit in Seattle, WA. Dr. Mohatt was the director of the Center for Alaska Native Health Research at the University of AlaskaFairbanks. He was a strong supporter of the Tribal College and University system and a mentor to many.

Diane J. Willis - Received from Div. 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) the Distinguished
Career Contributions to Service Award for her significant and outstanding services to ethnic minority populations at the 2010 APA
Convention in San Diego. Dr. J. Manuel Casas presented the award as past president and awards chair of Div. 45.  Dr. Willis is a
Kiowa psychologist, retired from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Child Study Center and doing private consulting in Indian Country.

Carolyn Barcus - Received the Distinguished Elder Award during the 2011 National Multicultural Conference and Summit in Seattle, WA. Dr. Barcus is a Blackfeet psychologists and the semi-retired co-director of the American Indian Support Project at Utah State University. Dr. Barcus also received the Utah State University Women's Resource Center Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. In February, Dr. Barcus received the 21st Annual Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship at the Winter Round Table on Cultural Psychology and Education at Columbia Teachers College in New York City.

John Chaney - Named as an APA Division 54 (Society of Pediatric Psychology) Fellow in 2010. Dr. Chaney is director of the American Indians into Psychology program at Oklahoma State University. He is Mvskoke Creek from Oklahoma. Dr. Chaney
was also named the new Director of the Native American Studies at OSU.

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