Cecilia Fire Thunder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cecilia Fire Thunder

Native American activist, leader of the Oglala Sioux

Date of Birth: 24-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, United States

Profession: nurse, activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Cecilia Fire Thunder (born Cecilia Apple; October 24, 1946) is a nurse, community health planner and tribal leader of the Oglala Sioux.
On November 2, 2004, she was the first woman elected as president of the Tribe.
She served until being impeached on June 29, 2006, several months short of the two-year term.
The major controversy was over her effort to provide for women on the reservation needing family planning services after the South Dakota legislature banned most abortions throughout the state.
The tribal council impeached her for proceeding without gaining their consensus. A founder of community-based health clinics while living and working in California for two decades, Fire Thunder was among founders of the Oglala Lakota Women's Society after her return to the reservation in 1986.
She serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) and has worked at a shelter for domestic abuse.
She is the coordinator of the Native Women's Society of the Great Plains.