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- Janine Pease, Ed.D., resigned as Rocky Mountain College’s (Billings, MT) vice president for planning and American Indian affairs at the end of June to become vice president for academic affairs at Fort Peck Community College in Poplar,
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People in the News
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Tribal Leaders Serve Colleges and Tribes
Ron His Horse Is Thunder, former president of Sitting Bull College (SBC, Fort Yates, ND), has been elected chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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Heroes of Today, Rising from the Past
More than 25 years ago, while visiting the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, I read a Bismarck Tribune editorial that said American Indians have no heroes like they had in the 19th century.
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The Future Is Green: Tribal colleges saving water, electricity – and money
Planning for the seventh generation, several tribal colleges designed green campuses with ecology and conservation in mind.
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TCUs Trade Crop Ideas Around Globe
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has arranged for several tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) to get involved in international agricultural research projects over the years,
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IAIA Developing Lifelong Learning Center
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded a $2 million planning grant to the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) to develop a Lifelong Learning Center.
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President Bush Signs Executive Order For TCUs
President George W. Bush signed the new Executive Order on Tribal Colleges and Universities on July 3 and named his new advisory board. Executive Order No.
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IAIA Offering Four-Year Degree Programs
The Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development (IAIA), the only museum and college in the nation devoted to Native arts and culture,
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Two Moons Dreams of Being Museum Curator
Morgan Wheeler Two Moons spent last summer in Providence, R.I., and now he is studying in Santa Fe, N.M., far from the open plains of Montana. Most likely, he won’t stay away from his home on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana for long, however. Two Moons’ rambling has been fueled by his dream –to become the curator of a museum on his reservation.
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IAIA Builds Cultural Center Despite Cuts
“It was like an old fashioned barn-raising,” said Della Warrior, president of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe. About 200 volunteers showed up last October to construct the first building for the institute’s new campus using mostly donated materials.
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IAIA Developing Youth Outreach Program
The Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund has awarded the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) a $673,000 grant to develop a Native American Youth Art Outreach Program.
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Instilling Dreams: The promise of teacher education
Ever since the first schools were built for American Indian children 200 years ago, these students have not fared well. Today nearly half–44 percent–of all American Indian students drop out of high school,
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IAIA Breaks Ground for New Home
Thirty-six years is a long time to be homeless, but the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N..M., will soon have a campus of its own.
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IAIA Presents Five Visionary Awards
The Institute of American Indian Arts Foundation hosted a gala evening of art and awards last July at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe.
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Institute of American Indian Arts Looks to the Future
Big challenges lie ahead, but IAIA has taken important steps forward to regain accreditation and the trust of Congress, private donors, and Indian tribes.
