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Peggy Flanagan
Soon to be:
The first indigenous woman governor of Minnesota.
The daughter of American Indian land rights and sovereignty activist Marvin Manypenny, Flanagan was raised by a single mother, a phlebotomist, in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.She is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. Flanagan received a bachelor's degree in child psychology and American Indian Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2002.