VIDEO: Higher Ed, Institutional Racism, and the Tribal College Difference

Jun 27, 2014 | Blog

VIDEO: Higher Ed, Institutional Racism, and the Tribal College Difference

June 27, 2014

Cheryl Crazy Bull, President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, provided the keynote address for the 27th National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education in Indianapolis, Indiana. She addressed institutional racism against Native Americans in higher education; the value of a tribal college education in eliminating barriers to Native people in achieving a higher education; and her own inspirational journey through higher education as a Lakota woman.

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