Charon Asetoyer

Charon Virginia Asetoyer (neé Huber, born March 24, 1951) is a Comanche activist and women's health advocate. Asetoyer is one of the founders of the Native American Community Board (NACB) and the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC). President Clinton appointed her to the National Advisory Council for Health and Human Services (HHS). She has been awarded the Woman of Vision award by the Ms. Foundation and the United Nations Distinguished Services Award.

Asetoyer was born in San Jose, California on March 24, 1951. She helped her father at her printing company and at age 16, started a dress-design company, called Charon of California. In high school, she led a successful sit-in to encourage the school, which had no cafeteria, to find a way to serve lunch to students. Asetoyer later dropped out of school and from 1968 to 1971, she ran a boutique in San Francisco until she decided to attend San Francisco City College. In 1972, she married Dennis Duncan and dropped out of college, and eventually worked at the Urban Indian Health Clinic as a Nutritional Counselor and WIC program specialist. Her marriage was abusive, and in order to escape, she moved to South Dakota in 1979. She went back to school and received a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from the University of South Dakota in 1981. Asetoyer started using her mother's name, Asetoyer, after her divorce.

She met and married Clarence Rockboy, a Yankton Sioux tribe elder in the early 1980s. They moved to Brattleboro, Vermont and her son, Charles, was born there in 1982, and the couple adopted Rockboy's nephew, Reynolds James Bruguier. She also earned a double master's degree in 1983 from the School for International Training. When Rockboy's father died in 1982, they moved to the Yankton Sioux Reservation and stayed there.

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