Background
Monty Roessel was born on June 28, 1961. He is the son of Bob Roessel.
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Monty Roessel graduated from the University of Northern Colorado.
Monty Roessel was born on June 28, 1961. He is the son of Bob Roessel.
Monty Roessel graduated from the University of Northern Colorado.
Writer and photographer Marty Roessel combines the literary and the visual in his acclaimed photo-essay books for young readers. In Kinaaldd: A Navajo Girl Grows Up, Roessel documents the rites through which a thirteen-year-old girl celebrates her coming of age. These include the making of a corn cake dedicated to the sun god, the wearing of ceremonial attire, prayer, running, and the gathering of family.
Roessel was collaborating with Arizona State University Regents’ Professor of History Peter Iverson on a book on Navajo history and a book comprising Navajo letters, speeches, and petitions.
He also was a superintendent of the Rough Rock Demonstration School. He served as director there for a number of years, becoming in 2013 a director of the U. S. Bureau of Indian Education, the top federal agency dealing with the education of Native children. Roessel served there for more than two years and was demoted in the aftermath of findings by the Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General that criticized some of his actions while in office. Shortly thereafter, he resigned.
Currently, Monty is the President of Diné College.