* Annie Dodge Wauneka; Navajo Leader Won Freedom Medal

Annie Dodge Wauneka, 87, a Navajo Nation leader who won the nation’s Freedom Medal for her work against tuberculosis. She won the medal, the United States’ highest civilian honor, in the early 1960s for helping bridge traditional Navajo medical practices and modern medicine. Beginning in 1951, Wauneka served nearly three decades on the Navajo Nation Council, the tribe’s legislative body. Her father, Chee Dodge, was the first Navajo tribal chairman and her grandson, Albert Hale, is current Navajo Nation president. On Monday in Flagstaff, Ariz.