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Guest Blog From Student Intern Deanna

September 6, 2011 – 4:18 pm

This the ninth part in a series of blog entries by our scholar Deanna, who is writing about her internship experience at Mesa Verde National Park. We have finally arrived to Week 3! Technically for half of this week I’m still attempting to finish our re-housing project, but I’m proficient in multitasking. From the beginning [...]

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Guest Blog From Student Intern Deanna

August 31, 2011 – 5:52 pm

This the eighth part in a series of blog entries by our scholar Deanna, who is writing about her internship experience at Mesa Verde National Park. On Monday of my second week at the park I began the longest project of my internship. Every year for over the past 20 years, Mesa Verde has held [...]

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Guest Blog From Student Intern Deanna

August 10, 2011 – 4:25 pm

As some of you know from visiting museums, not everything that is displayed on exhibit is owned by that particular museum. It is common practice for museums to loan items out to other institutions. For example, I recently visited the new Southern Ute Cultural Center in Ignacio, Colorado, and on display was an intricate piece [...]

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Guest Blog from Student Intern Wynette

July 18, 2011 – 9:04 pm

Ya’a’teeh! My name is Wynette. I am a psychology and sociology major at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. I am interning at the Diné Policy Institute at Diné College, a tribal institute located in Tsaile, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. While applying for the internship, I was not aware that I would be working [...]

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Guest Blog From Student Intern Deanna

July 15, 2011 – 7:36 pm

This is the fourth part in a series of blog entries by our scholar Deanna, who is writing about her internship experience at Mesa Verde National Park. Next week will will meet Wynette from Occidental College in L.A., who is working at the Diné Policy Institute this summer at Diné College. Day 4: Location – [...]

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We Salute Our Summer Graduates

July 3, 2011 – 11:46 pm

Graduation ceremonies were held all over Indian country the last several weeks. So many of our scholarship recipients have worked countless hours to receive that elusive document among Native people, the one that testifies to the completion of their course of study. In addition to the stress brought on by their rigorous curriculum, many have endured [...]

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Guest Blog from Student Intern Deanna

July 1, 2011 – 2:59 pm

Skano, everyone, and greetings from Mesa Verde National Park of Colorado. My name is Deanna and I believe some introductions and background information are in order. I was born and raised all over Southern California on various reservations but I am enrolled in the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians of New York. I have recently [...]

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Congratulations to Our American Indian Graduates!

May 19, 2011 – 8:37 pm

Graduation time is upon us. All of us at the American Indian College Fund want to wish all of our graduating students the best in their new and hard-won future! As one donor, Joanne (Cherokee-Choctaw) of Utah, said, “How proud I am of the graduates–and the others struggling on through. But mostly I proud of their desire [...]

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