Good memoirs offer us invaluable knowledge and insights-it’s up to each of us to explore the stories they hold and the wisdom they keep.
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IAIA Announces New Sherman Alexie Scholarship in Creative Writing
The Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program is offering the first annual Sherman Alexie Scholarship to a student who applies and enrolls in the program. The scholarship will pay $7,500 per semester for four semesters,
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“The Fire that Is Beginning to Stand”: Teaching Historical Trauma at Stone Child College
Stone Child College spent three years developing a comprehensive curriculum on historical trauma with the ultimate goal of individual and community healing.
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Sherman Alexie and Joy Harjo to Headline IAIA Writers Festival
The Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA) is pleased to announce the 2016 Winter Writers Festival, which will be held January 2-9, 2016. Readings by noted authors will take place each night beginning at 6:00 pm in the Library and Technology Center (LTC) auditorium on the IAIA campus.
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Sherman Alexie to read at IAIA Writers Festival
Award-winning author, Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d’Alene), will host a scholarship fundraiser on August 2 to benefit the Institute of American Indian Arts’ (IAIA,
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Smoke Signals Film Benefits College Fund
With frequent doses of Native humor, characters in the film “Smoke Signals” overcome challenges of modern Indian reservation life with wit, sadness, and spirituality never seen before on the Hollywood screen.
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American Indian College Fund Receives Gifts
A trustee of the American Indian College Fund, Richard Black, has donated a set of CD-ROMs containing the entire works of Edward Curtis and a CD-ROM workstation to each of the tribal colleges.





