Marigold Linton (born 1936) is a cognitive psychologist and member of the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians.
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.
[3][4] A great-great-granddaughter of Antonio Garra, war chief of the Cupeno who organized an 1847 Indian insurrection against Agoston Haraszthy, San Diego County's first sheriff,[5] Marigold Linton was born on the Morongo Reservation in Southern California.
[6] Raised in poverty, she overcame hardship and adversity to become in 1954 the first Indian from a California reservation to attend college.
in Psychology and completed two publications by the time she entered graduate school at the University of Iowa, eventually obtaining her Ph.D. from UCLA.