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Student Intern Bloggers Wanted!

March 22, 2012 – 4:20 pm

We are looking for students to blog this summer about their internship experiences. Blogs would be for the duration of the internship, and should include first-person experiences and photographs. We will pay you for your blogs. For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dina Horwedel at dhorwedel@collegefund.org.

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Guest Blog From Student Intern Deanna

September 23, 2011 – 2:53 pm

This the tenth and final entry from the summer series of blog entries by our scholar Deanna, who is writing about her internship experience at Mesa Verde National Park. We are thankful for her sharing her perspective and wish her only the best at Ft. Lewis College and in the Embrey Native Women’s Leadership Program. [...]

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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 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 22, 2011 – 9:15 pm

This is the second entry from Wynette in a series of blogs from American Indian College Fund scholars sharing their summer internship experiences. I am in Tsaile, Arizona, where I am living on the Diné College campus. Living on the reservation is drastically different from living in a city like Los Angeles. Normally there are [...]

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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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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 [...]