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Tribal college leaders have always been innovative and tenacious. Such qualities were instrumental in the founding of the American Indian College Fund.
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Current Trends in Teacher Education Programs at Tribal Colleges and Universities
Enrollment and completion data reveal that tribal college teacher education programs are producing graduates who are deeply rooted in their communities and well equipped to serve future generations.
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SGU’s Great Plains Art Institute Built on Heart and Authenticity
Sinte Gleska University’s art institute aims to provide students with the space, materials, knowledge, and tools to create art that is true to their self-expression and culture.
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SD Tribal Colleges Host AIHEC Conference
The theme of the conference is “Ancient Wisdom, Foundation of Our Future: Sovereignty, Unity, and Strength for Future Generations.
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AIHEC Welcomes New TCU Presidents
Tribal colleges and universities that have appointed new presidents include Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Little Big Horn College, Northwest Indian College, San Carlos Apache College, Sisseton Wahpeton College, Tohono O’odham Community College, Salish Kootenai College, and Sinte Gleska University.
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SGU’s Great Plains Art Insitute
The Sinte Gleska University annual Student Spring Art Show 2024 is taking place throughout May at the Great Plains Art Institute Gallery.
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Lakota/Dakota Text Anthology Project Underway
With funding from the NEH and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, a TCU-based editorial group is addressing the lack of reading texts and instruction materials for Lakota/Dakota language courses.
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Richard Moves Camp Receives WINHEC Honorary Doctorate
The educator and advisor of Sinte Gleska University’s Lakota Studies Department was recognized at the 2023 WINHEC International Conference held July 17-21st at Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Wakinyan Wanbli, Eagle Thunder, Speaking for the People
This past November, the tribal college movement lost one of its greatest leaders, Lionel Bordeaux. But his wisdom, leadership, and legacy will remain with us always.
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Lionel
I have listened as tribal college meetings raged, and angry leaders declared they’d had enough. Always Lionel stood up, commanded attention, and said, big brother’s responsibility is to take care of little brother. It’s all of us or none of us.
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Tribal Colleges: Strong Voter Turnout Helps SD Campuses
Higher education leaders for Indigenous populations say they hope to see strong turnout for the midterms, as it could help them elevate the pathways of more students.
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Locked Up and Cut Off: How the Pandemic Has Affected TCU Programming at Correctional Facilities
For years, some TCUs have offered classes at tribal correctional facilities, giving inmates a ray of hope and rehabilitation. But with the onset of the pandemic, those students were cut off and further marginalized.
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A South Dakota Tribal University and NASA Want to Send 3D Printed Homes to Space
NASA wants to work with Sinte Gleska University to train students to use 3D printing to build homes. They will then test them for suitability for use on the moon and Mars.
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Tribal Colleges Honor Students’ Past, Prepare Them for Future
With nearly a quarter of American Indians living in poverty compared with 13.4% of the overall population, TCUs provide educational access and opportunity.
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‘Will Rest in the Quiet’: Rosebud Sioux Children, Taken to a Boarding School Over 140 Years Ago, Finally Laid to Rest
The whole gym inside the Sinte Gleska University Multicultural Center smelled like sage by the end of the night when a heavy rainstorm, filled with crackling lightning, came through the town.
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Indigenous Children’s Remains Turned Over from Army Cemetery
The remains are scheduled to pass through several tribal lands before arriving at Sinte Gleska University in Mission on Friday night.
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National Convening Focuses on Historically-Underserved Students
Bringing two HBCUs, one HSI, one Tribal college and one Appalachian university together, in partnership with the National Issues Forums, is perhaps the most intentionally diverse convening of student voices on this topic, by race and by geography, ever undertaken.
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Our History: Memories of the Tribal College Movement (Podcast 10)
In this ongoing podcast, veteran TCU educator Tom Davis discusses the leadership and legacy of Sinte Gleska University president, Lionel Bordeaux.
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SD Colleges Make List of Top Schools for Indigenous Students
South Dakota schools on the list are: • Black Hills State University • Oglala Lakota College • Sinte Gleska University • South Dakota State University • University of South Dakota.
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Lakota Horse Therapy Program Helps Heal Children of Trauma
“That one horse seems to sense the child that is just like him,” explains Greg Grey Cloud, a member of the Crow Nation who works in Sinte Gleska University’s Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi (SGU’s TGKP) (“Bringing the Family Back Together”) program.
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Coining New Words Key to Revitalizing Native American Languages
Restoring a language is one thing. Ensuring its survival depends on being able to teach it so that it can be passed on to the next generation. And that means making the language relevant to youth today by coining new words and phrases.
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‘The Horse Nation Is Here for Us’: How Lakota Culture Is Helping Treat Child Trauma in South Dakota
Then, in 2013, faculty at Sinte Gleska University reached out to him about returning to his family ranching roots and starting this program, called Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi (“Bringing the Family Back to Life”), with some horses donated by local ranchers.
