Six Places to Find College Scholarship for Native Students

This is an article in Indian Country Today listing six options to look into if you are thinking about how to pay for college. To give you a rough idea, applying for scholarships can be just as financially worth the effort as getting a job which takes your time, energy, and focus away from your class studies. In fact, many native students are capable of going to school with the majority of their tuition coming from scholarships if you are diligent, organized, on-time, and most of all, you apply! This can make all the difference when you go to school, no matter where it is. Good luck!

Day 20: “The Residential School Experience” and “The Business of Fancydancing”

Today, we talked about poems and short stories from “The Business of Fancydancing” by Sherman Alexie and watched a short documentary film called, “A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience” by award-winning director Rosemary Gibbons, a graduate of the Native Voices Documentary Program at the University of Washington. The poems and stories talked about the clash of modern life and culture, identity and history, and being a native person navigating the complexities of contemporary changes. The film discussed residential and boarding school experiences of survivors with difficult circumstances being taken from home, made to assimilate and be institutionalized, and ultimately, be white-washed of their culture and have Indian culture, language, and identity removed from them. Discussion was great and students had good questions. They are fantastic in engaging with difficult material like this and thinking about them together.