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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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Fund Supporter Continues Last Year’s Great Pyrenees Challenge

August 17, 2011 – 10:23 pm

It’s a year later and American Indian College Fund board member and supporter Dave Rogers is back on the trail to kick off his personal Pyrenees challenge. The Pyrenees mountain chain creates a natural border between Spain and France, separating the Iberian Peninsula. It also is host to three peaks that crest over 11,000 feet [...]

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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 Deanna

July 28, 2011 – 3:43 pm

This is the fifth 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 [...]

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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 12, 2011 – 9:10 pm

This is the third entry in a series of blog entries by our scholar Deanna, who is writing about her internship experience at Mesa Verde National Park. On Day 2 I began the work that I came to accomplish. Our very first task was a simple one. My mentor, Tara, decided that the unprocessed archives [...]

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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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Flooding Update – June 17, 2011

June 17, 2011 – 9:15 pm

We still need your help. The flooding crisis is far from over and as the waters recede, they are leaving behind devastation to our students and staff. For others, it is wait and see if their efforts, literally, hold up the Missouri River. The Missouri River on YouTube Over the last month, our nation’s tribal [...]

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Follow Your Heart

February 11, 2008 – 8:47 pm

It may seem like the tried and true thing to write about as we approach Valentine’s Day, but the advice is as true today as it is any other time of the year: when it comes to the future, we must follow our hearts. Many American Indian students’ hearts are at home, where their families [...]

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