Marigold Linton is a cognitive psychologist and member of the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians

Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians is a federally recognized tribe. The main tribal groups are Cahuilla and Serrano. Other lineages include Cupeño and Luiseño Indians,. Although many tribes in California are known as Mission Indians, some, like those at Morongo, were never a part of the Spanish...

. In 1974 she co–founded the National Indian Education Association. Her research in long term memory is widely cited in psychology. She is director for mathematics and science initiatives in the University of Texas system, where she is responsible for bringing minority students into those two fields. She has been president of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Biography

A great-great granddaughter of Antonio Garra, war chief of the Cupeno

Cupeño

The Cupeño are a Native American tribe from Southern California. Their name in their own language is Kuupangaxwichem.They traditionally lived about inland and north of the modern day U.S.-Mexico border in the Peninsular Range of Southern California...

 who organized an 1847 Indian insurrection against Agoston Haraszthy

Agoston Haraszthy

Agoston Haraszthy was a Hungarian-American traveler, writer, town-builder, and pioneer winemaker in Wisconsin and California, often referred to as the "Father of California Viticulture," or the "Father of Modern Winemaking in California"...

, San Diego County's first sheriff, Marigold Linton was
born on the Morongo Reservation in Southern California. Raised in poverty, she overcame hardship and adversity to become in 1954 the very first Indian from a California reservation to attend college. Attending the newly opened University of California, Riverside

University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...

, she earned straight As to obtain her B.A. in Psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

 and completed two publications by the time she entered graduate school at the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

, eventually obtaining her Ph.D. from UCLA.

Published works

Linton, M. (1982) 'Transformations of memory in everyday life', in Neisser, U. (ed.) Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts, San Francisco, Freeman.

Linton, M. (1986) 'Ways of searching and the contents of memory', in Rubin, D.C. (ed.) Autobiographical Memory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Biography at the SACNAS Biography Project
• Marigold Linton Scholarship and brief biography