Susie Rayos Marmon - Ga-wa goo maa (Early Riser)

1877-1988

Educated at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania under the U.S. policy of acculturating Indian children through school and removal from their homelands, Susie was instrumental in bringing education back to Laguna. A lifelong teacher, oral historian, and storyteller, Susie was honored with a school in her name in Albuquerque in 1989 and received many national and state citations for her commitment to educating students.

Marker is on Interstate 40 at milepost 113.5, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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