After the Department of the Interior’s recent report on Indian Boarding Schools in America, and the historic apology by the Biden Administration, now is the time to begin healing and learning how to use our community’s legacy of trauma to move into a brighter future. Read Cheryl Crazy Bull’s response to these recent events here, and stay tuned for actionable ways to get involved.
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Circle of Hope Summer / Fall 2024
| Summer / Fall 2024 | Circle of Hope With Supplementary Funding Ending, Support is More Critical than EverDear Friends and Relatives, Wishing you all a happy fall – and sharing my enthusiasm and excitement, we are back in school! I am so happy we have been able to...
Circle of Hope Spring 2024
The Spring 2024 Newsletter brought to you by the American Indian College Fund.
Circle of Hope Winter 2024
| Winter 2024 |Circle of HopeThe Journey MattersAs we begin a new year, I am excited to share some new things we’ve been working on to create stronger, more meaningful ways of evaluating our work. Because Native people have not historically been included in the...
NATIVE EDUCATION: An Investment in Our Future
Fall 2023Circle of HopeNATIVE EDUCATION: An Investment in Our FutureInspiring change is one of the hardest things I feel called to do in this world. Seeing and understanding how to prioritize and choose where and how to make change is a daunting task, as it’s hard to...
Let’s Call It What It Is
American Indian College Fund | 2021 e-Newsletter | Volume 21, Issue 3 | Circle of Hope
Shaping the Future as We Move Forward
| 2021 E-NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 21, ISSUE 2 |Circle of Hope Shaping the Future as We Move Forward Today I write to you as someone who has been fully vaccinated, with hope and optimism that the worst of the COVID pandemic is finally behind us. While I know we’ve been...
Our Students Give Me Hope
| 2021 E-NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1 | Circle of Hope Our Students Give Me Hope And today I need it – I write this as December is starting and I anticipate spending Christmas (just as I did Thanksgiving) without my family because of the surge in COVID-19 cases...
The Time Is Now
| 2020 E-NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 20, ISSUE 4 |Circle of HopeThe Time Is Now As I again find myself reflecting on the world around me – the things that are changing, the things that are not, the things that COULD change – I think every moment of every day about how all...
PERSISTENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY
| 2020 E-NEWSLETTER | VOLUME 20, ISSUE 2 |Circle of HopePERSISTENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY By the time this finds its way to you, I’m hoping and praying we all will be on the other side of the COVID pandemic. But right now, while I am writing, we are still...