Background
He grew up in Old Oraibi, Arizona, a village located on Third Mesa on the Hopi Reservation.
He grew up in Old Oraibi, Arizona, a village located on Third Mesa on the Hopi Reservation.
He later attended the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, California, which was then called Sherman Indian Boarding School.
At early childhood, Fredericks went to grade school on the reservation. After graduation, he worked as a mechanic on and off his reservation. He then went on to serve in the United States. Army.
In the 1960s he was elected as Chairman of the Hopi Tribe.