EDUCATION

OLC announced last week that its Board of Trustees has voted to establish the Marty Waukazoo Scholarship “in recognition of his many great accomplishments.”

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On Sunday, June 16, Oglala Lakota College is set to award 162 masters, bachelors and associate degrees; ceremonies are scheduled to get underway at 10am at the Three Mile Creek pow wow grounds on OLC’s Piya Wiconi campus six miles southwest of Kyle.

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This summer is the first time campers 1st through 5th grade will get to experience a day at the United Tribes Technical college full of fun activities.

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Several adult students practice speaking sentences in Lakota. They’re learning at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle. It’s a summer course offered by the revitalization group, the Lakota Language Consortium

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She stopped attending her classes at Blackfeet Community College and befriended a decades-older crowd, which included some who were rumored to sell and use drugs like meth.

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Leech Lake Tribal College’s (LLTC’s) Azhegiiwe Bagwajaya’ii (She/he goes back to the wilderness) is excited to announce that it will be hosting the 3rd annual Earth Systems Summer Camp for high school students.

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The Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC) rocket team traveled with six students to the First Nations Launch in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to compete against other tribal teams.

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Central Wyoming College and the Northern Arapaho Business Council have reached an agreement to begin offering college courses on the Wind River Reservation.

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The employee ceremony honors excellence and service from the entire college spectrum. Both staff and faculty receive recognition for their years of service to the college.

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Warren teaches geography at the Tohono O’odham Community College, and is a humanitarian aid volunteer with No More Deaths and Samaritans in Ajo, Ariz.

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The 10-day academy is for Lakota Language learners of all levels.

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Stone Child College in Box Elder holds events every month in their library that incorporate Cree.

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Chehalis Stories
Edited by Jolynn Amrine Goertz with the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
University of Nebraska Press (2018)
368 pages

“In Chehalis Stories Jolynn Amrine Goertz and the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation in Western Washington have assembled a collaborative volume of traditional stories collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas from tribal knowledge keepers in the early twentieth century.

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Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
By Susan Devan Harness
University of Nebraska Press (2018)
352 pages

“In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old,

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In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World
By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
University of Nebraska Press (2018)
232 pages

“In Defense of Loose Translations is a memoir that bridges the personal and professional experiences of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

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Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
By Benjamin R. Kracht
University of Nebraska Press (2018)
342 pages

“Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization,

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Their Land, Their Love: The Return Home
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie
Salina Bookshelf (2018)

“Their Land Their Love: The Return Home is the fourth and final volume in the series by Evangeline Parsons-Yazzie.

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Indian Horse: A Novel
By Richard Wagamese
Milkweed Editions (2012, reprinted 2018)
320 pages

“Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods.

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Vernacular Sovereignties: Indigenous Women Challenging World Politics
By Manuela Lavinas Picq
University of Arizona Press (2018)
240 pages

“Indigenous women are rarely accounted for in world politics.

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Weaving Chiapas: Maya Women’s Lives in a Changing World
Edited by Yolanda Castro Apreza, Charlene Woodcock, and K’inal Antsetik, A.C.
University of Oklahoma Press (2018)
288 pages

“In the highlands of Chiapas,

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