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Student Blogger Therese: Summer Pastimes

July 18, 2012 – 9:41 pm

We all have our favorite activities and pastimes that magnify the summer season. Among the most common are reading novels while swinging in a hammock under a shade tree, watching the sun dance with the branches, sippin’ on an ice- cold- fresh- squeezed big gulp size tumbler of lemonade, jumping out of a tire swing [...]

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Native Students Travel to D.C. for Forum about Minority Health Issues

July 13, 2012 – 11:02 pm

Last week I accompanied five American Indian College Fund Scholars to the United Health Foundation’s Annual Diverse Scholars Forum in Washington, D.C. These students have been supported by the United Health Foundation with scholarships to pursue degrees ranging from physical therapy and exercise science to nursing and health occupations. The annual forum brings diverse students [...]

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“Hats Off” to the Class of 2012

May 24, 2012 – 3:13 pm

As many scholars celebrate their way across the stages at graduation many proceed with a sense of personal style and expression. I remember attending a graduation for the University of Notre Dame and there a row of graduates collectively spelled J.O.B.L.E.S.S across their graduate caps. Others, like a group of students from my own graduation [...]

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The Meaning of the Sacred White Buffalo

May 9, 2012 – 8:09 pm

When a white buffalo calf, a male calf named Lightning Medicine Cloud, and its mother were slaughtered this week at Native-owned Lakota Ranch in Texas, Indian Country was outraged. This is because white buffalo are not only rare (according to the National Bison Association, just one out of every 10 million buffalo born are white), [...]

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AIHEC Student Conference Honors the Drum

April 12, 2012 – 9:40 pm

It is always great to get out and meet our students. At the 31st annual American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Student Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, we had that chance. Native students gather to participate in competitions and celebrate the work they do at the tribal colleges as they pursue a college education [...]

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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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The Making of Our Ad Campaign–See the Video

February 15, 2012 – 5:17 pm

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create a national advertising campaign? Wieden+Kennedy filmed a behind-the-scenes video to show you how it’s done. The video includes interviews with legendary director and video producer Joe Pytka, film photographer Anne Menke, Wieden+Kennedy founders Dan Wieden and David Kennedy, American Indian College Fund president and [...]

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Northwest Indian College Team Selected for NASA Student Rocket Launch

February 6, 2012 – 5:39 pm

Congratulations to Team SkyWalkers, Northwest Indian College’s (NWIC) team that will be part of this year’s NASA Student Launch Initiative April 21 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NWIC’s team was one of 42 nationwide selected to participate in the program this year. Team SkyWalkers is comprised of more than 12 students [...]

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Student Punished for Speaking Native Language

January 31, 2012 – 4:27 pm

A Menominee high school student in Wisconsin was punished for speaking her Native language there. She was teaching other students how to say specific words, such as “hello,”, “thank you,” and “good bye” in her Native tongue. Her teacher said it was inappropriate because she could not understand what she was saying and therefore could [...]

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How Tribal Colleges Reverse Boarding School Native Education Legacy

January 27, 2012 – 10:26 pm

Education was a tool used by the U.S. government to try to assimilate American Indians. This Week in Indian Country’s piece, “Schools for Scandal,” illustrates the history behind U.S. policy to assimilate American Indians in boarding schools. Richard Henry Pratt, a former U.S. Army officer, summed up the government policy in the late 1800s that was carried [...]