Jacqueline Left Hand Bull

Jacqueline Left Hand Bull
Born	1944
Other names	Jacqueline Delahunt
NSA member	United States 2001 - 2022
Counsellor	Americas 1988 - 2000
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Jacqueline Left Hand Bull (b. 1944) is an American Bahá’í who served as a Continental Counselor for the Americas and a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States.

Jacqueline is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota) and the first American Indian to serve as the chairman of the National Assembly, as well as being the third woman to be elected to the position since the Assembly's inception.

She was raised on an Indian reservation speaking the Lakota language. The Catholic church operated mission schools on the reservation and she identified with Catholicism in her youth. She became a Bahá’í in 1981, finding that the Faith complemented traditional Lakota spirituality. She spent 13 years working around the world with indigenous populations and has served on many local and national boards advocating for Indian rights, women, and justice. Jacqueline has also served at the national center and was appointed the liaison for the American Indians that had become Bahá’ís. She has also served as a Counsellor.

As of 2007 she is the administrative officer of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Jacqueline earned a bachelor's degree from Evergreen State College in Washington state with a major in community development. She has written several short stories and authored a book for children, Lakota Hoop Dancer.

References

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• Melmer, David (13 June 2007). "Lakota woman elected to head U.S. Baha'is' national assembly". Indian country. Retrieved 24 Nov 2009.
• Garrigan, Mary (28 May 2007). "Left Hand Bull to lead nation's Baha'is". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved 24 Nov 2009.
• "Lakota woman elected to head U.S. Baha'is' national assembly". 11 June 2007. Retrieved 24 Nov 2009.
• Locke, Patricia (1989). "The Return of the "White Buffalo Calf Woman": Prophecy of the Lakota". Interview. University of Georgia. Retrieved 24 Nov 2009.