Congratulations! Whether you are a high school graduate or you have earned a college degree, graduation time is right here. Graduates are lining up on stages across the country to celebrate years of hard work and receive their diplomas and college degrees. Many Native students choose to personalize their graduation regalia with Native cultural elements. Some replace the graduation tassel with a ceremonial eagle feather, which, in many Native American cultures, is a sign of high achievement....
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Erin Griffin of American Indian College Fund Awarded 2022 Bush Fellowship
Erin Griffin of American Indian College Fund Awarded 2022 Bush Fellowship Griffin plans to finish doctoral degree in Indigenous language and culture revitalization to work towards dream of having Dakota spoken everywhere May 23, 2022, Denver, Colo.—Erin Griffin (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of Sisseton, South Dakota), a Program Officer for Indigenous Education at the American Indian College Fund, is one of 24 extraordinary leaders who was selected by the Bush Foundation for a 2022 Bush Fellowship....
Inaugural Native Nonprofit Day May 20
Campaign to Illustrate How Community-Based Organizations Create Impact A giving campaign supported by the Native Ways Foundation highlights the importance of supporting Native-led non-profits throughout the month of May. Beginning May 1 and culminating on Native Nonprofit Day May 20, the campaign will raise awareness about how Native non-profits make a greater impact on Native communities. Large foundations have allocated less than half a percent of their total annual grantmaking to Native...
Indian Boarding Schools: Education Was Never the Point
Education was never the point when American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hawaiian children were taken from their families by agents of the U.S. government and were forced to travel far from the only homes they had ever known to live at boarding schools. Education was never the point when strangers cut Native children’s hair, burned their clothing, washed their tiny bodies with harsh lye soap, forbade them to speak their languages or practice their traditions, and assigned them new names....
A Dialogue with Diné Director Blackhorse Lowe
April 26, 2022 -The American Indian College Fund’s Fund Employee Engagement Team (F.E.E.T.) Film Festival started as an endeavor to show films and documentaries that spotlight Indigenous issues with Indigenous voices. Watching films and guest appearances by Indigenous guest speakers in the film industry lend voice and traction to the important work the College Fund is doing. Diné film and TV director Blackhorse Lowe met with the College Fund to speak about what it means to be an Indigenous...
National Week of Action for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
Please Take Action April 29-May 5, 2022 By Cheryl Crazy Bull, President and CEO, American Indian College Fund This week marks the National Week of Action for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. As a Native woman who grew up on the Sicangu Lakota Nation’s homelands on the Rosebud Reservation, and as the President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, I know too well that Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately among the missing and murdered in this country. Even more...