EDUCATION

Navajo Technical University (NTU) faculty member Mark Trebian was selected by the students of the university as faculty of the year. Trebian has designed, and teaches courses in,

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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham last month signed legislation opening the lottery scholarship to students attending tribal colleges in New Mexico.

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AICF has written and published a blog, “Graduation: Celebrating Your Achievements and Culture,” that includes downloadable brochures created by the NARF and links to laws that provide for Native students to have meaningful celebrations of their cultures.

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Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) will continue its annual campus tradition of celebrating Earth Week with a week-long celebration of planet Earth set for this week.

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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham recently signed legislation that makes students attending Diné College, Navajo Technical University, and the Institute of American Indian Arts eligible to receive lottery scholarships.

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The American Indian College Fund is celebrating its 30th anniversary of providing access to a higher education for Native Americans. In honor of the anniversary,

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The move marks Bacone's first step towards its ultimate goal of becoming a Title I public tribal college under the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

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Representatives from Salish Kootenai College and researchers from the University of Montana were in attendance to inform the Elders Committee on what they are doing to help ensure that a healthy physical and metaphysical future is attainable for the tribal people of the Flathead Nation and beyond.

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This years’ theme relates to moving away from the idea of managing “resources” and towards honoring relatives.

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Highlighting TCUs’ creation, evolution and their designation as land-grant institutions under the 1994 Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act, co-authors Dr. Cheryl Crazy Bull and Emily R. White Hat explore how the Indigenous concept of relationality – “the relatedness of all things” – serves as the basis for the institutions’ missions to affirm and promote Indigenous culture and ecological knowledge, as well as create economic and tribal community prosperity.

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Through a variety of outreach programs and services, CCCC is connecting with the local community and improving food security.

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Tribal College Journal has announced that Michael R.L. Begay of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is the recipient of the 2019 TCJ Student Best Film Award for his original work,

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The Red Quilt Solidarity Project is an international awareness initiative dedicated to missing/murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). While the numbers of unreported, unsolved, and uninvestigated cases of MMIW are astounding,

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Then, in 2013, faculty at Sinte Gleska University reached out to him about returning to his family ranching roots and starting this program, called Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi ("Bringing the Family Back to Life"), with some horses donated by local ranchers.

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“This confluence of the quality of the instructors, the energy and sharing of students that was encouraged, the political energy surrounding the 1960s and ’70s [and] the Civil Rights movement,” Kramer says, all combined to make IAIA a place of highly productive ferment.

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The 21-year-old from Kake, currently a student at Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Washington, was voted emerging leader Friday morning during the last day of Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s 84th annual Tribal Assembly.

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"Today, I'm attending Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College, where I'll receive my Associate's Degree this May. Had it not been for the encouragement and support I received at ISMN, I wouldn't have made it this far."

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The fine arts departments at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) are presenting a schedule of activities on campus to celebrate Fine Arts Week,

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The college was established through a philanthropic $3 million gift from the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians.

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Patients that need bone marrow transplants are most likely to match with someone who shares their ethnic background. This is why United Tribes Technical College is hosting a bone marrow registry drive.

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