Serving indigenous people since 1970.
The Skakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Scott County, Minnesota donated $200,000 to NWIC in support of the fourth phase of its expansion.
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Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) hosted its second annual Mental Health Days on campus February 5-7, 2019. Each day was filled with unique events and activities to help combat and bring recognition to mental health challenges.
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By Alan R. Parker
Michigan State University Press (2018)
161 pages
Review by Bradley Shreve
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NorthLakes Community Clinic-Hayward will partner with Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College to offer a free community showing of the film “Resilience.”
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In an effort to recruit more Indigenous students in the program, a representative from the University of Oklahoma’s Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work recently visited students at the College of the Muscogee Nation.
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Tribal colleges are the only public higher education institutions in New Mexico where students cannot use the state lottery scholarship. A measure approved by the Senate Education Committee on Friday morning would change that.
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Compiled by Bradley Shreve
(Editor’s note: “A Taste of Indian Country” is an ongoing revitalization project.
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The Pawnees and other Indian peoples were once master gardeners. Today, tribal colleges are working to revitalize Indigenous horticulture and secure Native nations’ food sovereignty.
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A tribal elder stood with a group of youth on the edge of a field at United Tribes Technical College’s (UTTC’s) Extension gardens.
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Growing our food is in itself a resource that connects us to the Earth and to each other. Gardening is, of course,
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Interview by Bradley Shreve
On October, 20, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act,
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By Jacqueline Emery
University of Nebraska Press (2017)
366 pages
Review by Farina King
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Carole laFavor
University of Minnesota Press
(1996 & 1997; reprinted 2017)
181 pages; 219 pages
Review by Nina Knight
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By J.P. Leary
Wisconsin Historical Society Press (2018)
337 pages
Review by Eric Jurgens
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By Charlotte J. Frisbie
University of New Mexico Press (2018)
398 pages
Review by Christine M. Ami
The post Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman appeared first on Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education.
Author’s note: The khéya, or turtle, has a strong beating heart. This is a fictional story about a woman who was symbolically named Khéya because of her strong and loving heart.
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By Mekko Tyner, Lacey Azbell, Bobbie Coon, Mackie Moore, Trent Pembrook, and Monte Randall
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The Navajo Technical University (NTU) Land grant Program has been building community focused horticultural extension for the past five years. The long-term goals are to develop an extension program that will serve as a hub of Navajo- and Native-specific agricultural information and conversation,
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Hundreds of students at tribal colleges and universities who need financial aid are waiting until the last minute to ask for it, according to report released this week from the Center for Community College Student Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin.
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According to the AICF, currently American Indians and Alaska Natives face a college access and completion crisis. Only 14 percent of them age 25 and older have a college degree – less than half of that of other groups in the United States.
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