Annie Dodge Wauneka [SEP] father
(public health) from the University of New Mexico. In 2000, Wauneka was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Annie Dodge Wauneka was the daughter of the Navajo leader Henry Chee Dodge and his third wife Keehanabah or Mary Shirley Begaye of Deer Spring, Arizona. Keehanabah was forced to marry Chee and unwillingly lived with him, often returning to her family in the Deer Spring area. It was during this time Annie was born, approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) south of current day Sawmill
, and activist Annie Dodge Wauneka.
Biography.
Dodge was born around 1860 near (Fort Defiance) into the clan; his father was (Juan Anaya) of Mexican ancestry, Juan Anaya had been captured by the Navajos on one of their many raids and had been raised by them. There was speculation that he was born three years earlier and was the son of the US Indian Agent Henry L. Dodge at the Navajo Agency. The senior Dodge was known in Navajo as . This question was finally settled by historian