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Dr. Eber Hampton
Educator uses talents for the good of all
By Cheryl Petten
Windspeaker Writer
Dr. Eber Hampton once wrote that the Indian perspective on
education is that it isn't attained for personal gain, but for
the good of the larger group, a student's family, community or
for Native people as a whole. He has demonstrated this philosophy
throughout his own life by taking what he's learned and using
it to help provide opportunities for Aboriginal people to succeed.
These efforts have been recognized this year with a National
Aboriginal Achievement Award in the education category.
Hampton said he was both surprised and happy when he learned
he would be one of this year's achievement award recipients,
and greeted the news with "kind of a combination of humility
and pride.
"I feel really
lucky about this award because a lot of people, they work really
hard their whole life and never get any recognition." Hampton
said he's glad to see the awards highlight the fact there are
a lot of Native people deserving of recognition, and through
that recognition they are providing other Aboriginal people with
examples of what can be achieved.
Hampton's talents and contributions have been recognized by others.
In 1964 he was named a Regents Fellow of the University of California
and in 1978 he was named a Bush Leadership Development Fellow,
a program of the Archibald Bush Foundation that provides financial
support for students selected based on their leadership potential.
In 1990 he was given the ...
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