Native Arts Enrichment and Expansion

2020-2023

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About The Program

The Native Arts Enrichment and Expansion program purposes to enrich, enhance, and expand traditional and contemporary Native arts knowledge and skills at tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and the communities that they serve. Grants provide the opportunity at TCUs for the transfer of intergenerational artistic skills and cultural knowledge. TCUs are cultural hubs for their respective communities and will provide the opportunity for students and community members to learn and expand their knowledge of traditional and contemporary Native arts through instruction from master artists and apprentices.

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Grantees

Native Arts Curriculum Development Grants:

Blackfeet Community College

Diné College

Diné College

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University

Oglala Lakota College

Salish Kootenai College

Sinte Gleska University

Sisseton Wahpeton College

Stone Child College

Community Based Learning and Sharing Grants:

https://www.littlehoop.edu/

Cankdeska Cikana Community College

http://www.menominee.edu/

College of Menominee Nation

Fort Peck Community College

Iḷisaġvik College

https://www.lltc.edu/

Leech Lake Tribal College

http://www.navajotech.edu/

Navajo Technical University

Northwest Indian College

Red Lake Nation College

Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute

https://tocc.edu/ Tohono O'odham Community College

Tohono O'odham Community College

https://www.tm.edu/

Turtle Mountain College

United Tribes Technical College

White Earth Tribal and Community College

White Earth Tribal and Community College

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Julie Buckman interviews Ella Robertson (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), a mostly self-taught artist who teaches Native American textiles at Sisseton Wahpeton College (SWC). Robertson recalls getting her start as a child making Barbie clothes on her aunt’s sewing machine. Today she is a renowned Dakota community artist and entrepreneur specializing in many art forms and created SWC’s logo, one of her many accomplishments.

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