Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Marcella LeBeau (1919–2021), decorated WWII combat nurse & Lakota elder
legacy.comMarcella LeBeau was a nurse who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II and went on to advocate for Native American health.LeBeau served as an Army nurse in Belgium, England, and France, including treating soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge.
She was later awarded a medal of honor by Belgium. When she returned to the U.S., she worked as a nurse on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation in South Dakota, serving for 31 years until her retirement as director of nursing at Indian Health Services.
She served on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council, where she worked to ban smoking from tribal chambers. The reservation became the first community in South Dakota to pass a clean air law.
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