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Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College Earth Week: It’s a Small World
Emily Lockling (Fond du Lac and Leech Lake) Tribal College and University: Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Major: Environmental Science Counting your chickens before they hatch, or in my case, buying your first set of luggage before a pandemic hit with...
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Step Towards Visibility
Tribal nations, cities, and states across the country prepare to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, October 12. Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day affirms that we are still here, while underscoring the resilience of our ancestors and our hopes for the...
From Surviving to Thriving: Sisseton Wahpeton College Fellows
LaVerne Whitebear (Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux) Tribal College and University: Sisseton Wahpeton College Degree Major: Behavioral Science I am a 46-year old wife and mother of seven children, some grown and some not, and a first-generation college student. I have...
The Voices of Indigenous Visionaries: Highlights of the 2019-2020 Grant Year
The Indigenous Visionaries program has worked with three Tribal Colleges and Universities for three years (2017 – 2020), supporting the development of Native women leaders in the three programming areas of Early Childhood Education, Environmental Stewardship, and...
CHARTER ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL CLASS OF 20 SPECTRUM SCHOLARS
CHARTER ANNOUNCES INAUGURAL CLASS OF 20 SPECTRUM SCHOLARS Stamford, CT – September 28, 2020 – Charter Communications, Inc. today announced the 20 college juniors who will make up its inaugural class of Spectrum Scholars, the company’s new, two-year educational and...
GED/HSE Program: Electronic TABE Informational Training Webinar
The American Indian College Fund’s Dollar General American Indian and Alaska Native Literacy and Adult Education Program helps students in pursuit of a GED or high school equivalency by supporting the TCU staff and programming that gets them there. There are always...
Invest or Divest: Indigenous Discussion of Police Funding
Edgar Villanueva & Anthony Tamez discuss the duality of thoughts of investing or divesting from police funding from an indigenous perspective.
In Memory of Dr. David M Gipp
The leadership and staff of the American Indian College Fund were saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. David Gipp Wicahpi Isnala, Lone Star, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the former President and Chancellor of United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), a tribal college, in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Standing in Solidarity
| 2020 E-NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 20, ISSUE 3 |Circle of HopeSTANDING IN SOLIDARITY I am a Native mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. The men, women, girls, and boys in my family are Indigenous. I have spent my entire life living with the possibility of...
THE DENVER POST NAMES THE AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND A WINNER OF THE COLORADO TOP WORKPLACES 2020 AWARD
THE DENVER POST NAMES THE AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND A WINNER OF THE COLORADO TOP WORKPLACES 2020 AWARD Denver, Colo., September 9, 2020 — The American Indian College Fund was awarded a Top Workplaces 2020 honor by The Denver Post for the second year in a row. The...
