Indigenous Literacy Story Series
The Indigenous Literacy Story Series seeks to shift perceptions of literacy and education in tribal nation communities, provide evidence of literacy success and innovation in tribal nation communities, establish the College Fund as a resource and leader in literacy resources, and encourage innovation and collaboration within TCUs, across TCUs, and between Native inservice teachers.
This story series features guest writers from the College Fund, TCUs, and Native educators in the field.
Indigenous Literacy is:
A means of expressing and sustaining connection, culture, and sovereignty.
The ability to communicate (tell stories, speak, write, create, teach, or demonstrate) and comprehend (listen, read, sense, interpret, view, learn, or practice).
A starting point for Native people to co-create their environment in ways that are grounded in – and sustaining of – Indigenous cultures, languages, and ways of knowing.
Relational and intergenerational, supporting kinship with each other, ancestors, and the land.
Essential to thriving Indigenous communities.
Featured Stories
College Fund Scholar Joins Supporter Diet Coke to Promote Conversation About Labels
Labels are tricky. They can mean different things to different people – and there’s no one-size-fits-all perspective. Some fight for and embrace labels as a means of connectivity, self-expression and, even, protection. Others reject the divisive labels that are imposed on them by others.
RX FOR HEALING IN INDIAN COUNTRY: CULTURAL COMPETENCY
Participants learned about the importance of culturally competent representation in health care, preparing for their careers, and improving health care in the communities they plan to serve.
GED Program: Successful. Empowering. Needed.
These are the words that Kateri Montileaux uses to describe the Community Continuing Education/GED (General Educational Development) program she coordinates at Oglala Lakota College (OLC).
Tribe’s First Master’s Degree Recipient, Historian, and War Chief Dies at Age 102
Joseph Medicine Crow, the last living war chief of the Crow Tribe of Montana who was a renowned Native American historian and anthropologist, has died at age 102. He was the last living person to have heard direct testimony from people present before the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
Spring Is Here and So Are We: NWIC Preschoolers Learn to Explore!
Do you hear those sounds? They are the sounds of birds, bugs, and children playing! It is spring, and we are fully experiencing the new season at Northwest Indian College’s Early Learning Center.
Free Webinar June 3 on College Fund’s College-Going Student Guidebook
Education professionals working with Native American high school students can attend a free webinar on Monday, June 3 at 2 p.m. EDT, introducing Native Pathways: A College-Going Guidebook, a new, culturally relevant
Free Webinar June 3 on College Fund’s College-Going Guidebook for Native Students
Education professionals working with Native American high school students can attend a free webinar on Monday, June 3 at 2 p.m. EDT, introducing Native Pathways: A College-Going Guidebook, a new, culturally relevant
Longtime College Fund Ad Agency Wieden+Kennedy Wins Webby Agency of Year Award
The Agency of the Year Award recognizes the most successful agency across all Webby categories including Advertising, Media & PR, Websites, Apps, Mobile, and Voice, Video, Social, Podcasts, and Games.
Entergy Supports College Fund with Scholarships for Fifth Year
Sometimes Americans forget that with more than 500 federally recognized American Indian tribes in the United States, there are tribes located in the eastern portion of the United States, too.
Entergy Supports College Fund with Scholarships for Fifth Year
Sometimes Americans forget that with more than 500 federally recognized American Indian tribes in the United States, there are tribes located in the eastern portion of the United States, too.
