 A great-great granddaughter of Antonio Garra, war chief of the Cupeno who organized an 1847 Indian insurrection against Agoston Haraszthy, San Diego County's first sheriff, Marigold Linton was 
born on the Morongo Reservation in Southern California.Her grandfather was Sadakichi Hartmann.Raised in poverty, she overcame hardship and adversity to become in 1954 the first Indian from a California reservation to attend college.