Frieda Rose Fein
Indiana
Frieda Rose Fein, 18, of South Bend, submitted a behavioral & social sciences project to the Intel Science Talent Search
that clarifies the history of the Pokagon Band, one of the few groups of Midwestern Native Americans not forced onto
reservations by the U.S. government. Frieda's study measured carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in collagen from animal
bones excavated from a southwest Michigan village site to determine the amount of maize (corn) in the animals' diets. Her
results indicate significant levels of maize and suggest that the Pokagon Band adopted a Euro-American lifestyle (farming),
which may explain why the government allowed them to remain on their traditional lands. Frieda has started new research
using samples that she helped excavate from another site last summer. First in her class of 343 at John Adams High School,
Frieda is a four-year varsity soccer player and co-founder of the recycling club. The daughter of Jeremy and Antoinette
Fein, she enjoys pottery, playing the harp and hiking in Scotland and Yosemite. Frieda, a native of the United Kingdom,
is applying to several colleges where she hopes to pursue her love of archaeology and "use science to understand history."
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