TRIBAL COLLEGE JOURNAL

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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Loring has been missing from the Blackfeet Reservation for almost two years. She was last seen in Browning in June of 2017, but there is confusion about the exact day.

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The NWIC Early Learning Center’s newly installed Sensory Garden supports children’s education in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

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Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC) is hosting the 16th annual Law Enforcement Career Expo and Campus Visit Day from 10:00 a.m.

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Blackfeet Community College and Salish Kootenai College have a long history of coordination with UM. With this new position, they hope to expand on that relationship and get Native American students with associate’s degrees and certificates into undergraduate programs at UM.

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Ten Navajo Technical University (NTU) students will be traveling to Louisville, Kentucky in June to compete in the SkillsUSA national conference after winning gold medals at the SkillsUSA state competition at Central New Mexico Community College.

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At Leech Lake Tribal College Thursday, it was the former in Michael Price's "StarLab," where he told attendees about Ojibwe star knowledge at the college's fourth-annual Across the Universe family night.

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The exhibit is hosted by The Heritage Center and includes 40 pieces of work submitted by both OLC staff and students that feature a wide array of mediums.

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Cheryl Crazy Bull, President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, with Emily White Hat, Director, Strategy and National Outreach of the College Fund, have published a scholarly paper exploring how tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) incorporate tribal values and knowledge of land sustainability and ecology into their institutions, making them substantially different from other academic institutions.

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Students from Baraga, L’Anse, Sacred Heart, and Arvon schools gathered at the Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College on Wednesday for an environmental fair.

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Two alumni from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), both of whom have appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers List this year—Terese Mailhot (Seabird Island Band) and Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/Arapaho)—received major literary awards this month: Mailhot won the 2019 Whiting Award for nonfiction for her book Heart Berries: A Memoir 

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