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Historic $700,000 Gift Used to Create 7th Generation Academic Excellence Center at Sitting Bull College
Higher Learning Commission Approved Sitting Bull College to Begin Four Additional Bachelor’s of Science Degree Programs
Brain-Tanning Workshops Offered at Sitting Bull College!
PALEONTOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL on the
STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION
Historical Lakota Recordings Gifted to Sitting Bull College
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| Historic $700,000 Gift Used to Create 7th Generation Academic Excellence Center at Sitting Bull College |
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FORT YATES, ND — In the spring of 2007, The American Indian College Fund, based in Denver Colorado announced a $17.5 million, historic grant initiative from the Lilly Endowment Inc.
The program, named Woksape Oyate, Lakota for “Wisdom of the People,” aims to build the intellectual capital at many of the federally recognized tribal colleges.
Richard Williams, President of the American Indian College Fund said, “this program allows college administrators to tailor programs that will address individual needs for each of their respective institutions, while strengthening the tribal college system as a whole.”
In November 2007, Sitting Bull College was awarded $700,000 of the $17.5 million Lily Endowment and has used the initial funding to establish a 7th Generation Academic Excellence Center in hopes of enhancing the intellectual capital of its students and future leaders on the Standing Rock Reservation.
“The center will assist Sitting Bull College students to become more effective communicators both orally and in writing,” Dr. Koreen Ressler, Vice President of Academics said. “This is important to the education of our students because effective communication is one of the seven overall student outcomes used to measure student success.”
Sitting Bull College received its first installment in November 2007, with four additional payments of $140,000 each scheduled over the next four years.
The center is focused on developing student's writing, reading and oral communication skills and will also collaborate with key community stakeholders to successfully impact the education system on and near the Standing Rock Reservation.
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| Higher Learning Commission Approved Sitting Bull College to Begin Four Additional Bachelor’s of Science Degree Programs |
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On Thursday, May 8, 2008, Sitting Bull College (SBC) was officially notified of the results of the Higher Learning Commission’s focus visit completed on January 22-24, 2008. The purpose of the focus visit was to request the addition of four bachelor’s degrees to Sitting Bull College’s current programs in Elementary Education, Business Administration, and Environmental Science The team recommended allowing SBC to begin offering four additional bachelor’s degrees in Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Secondary Science Education, and General Studies. These new degree programs will begin in the fall semester 2008.
The team members consisted of Dr. Bernard Marley, Provost of Oakland City University who served as the team chair and Dr. David Calhoon, Chair of Elementary/Secondary Education at Black Hills State University. Dr. Marley gave the college very positive feedback on the findings from the team’s three days of visiting with Board of Trustees, administration, faculty, staff, students, and community members.
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| Brain-Tanning Workshops Offered at Sitting Bull College! |
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Brain-tanning hides can be a cultural and family activity, and a home business!
Sitting Bull College is once again offering its popular brain-tanning workshops to all who are interested. This year a deer hide (buckskin) brain-tanning workshop will be held in Ft. Yates at the Farmer’s Market hoop building from May 19th to the 23rd. A bison hide brain-tanning workshop will be held from June 2nd to the 6th at ‘The Bay’ campground on the Missouri River across from Mobridge. At the end of each workshop each participant or family takes home a finished hide!
The teacher will be D. Joyce Kitson, Pehi?šawi? (Red Hair Woman), from Bismarck. She is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and a master at hide tanning, quillwork, beading, and earth pigment painting. As a child Kitson learned first from her grandmother, Alice Vaulters of Solen and Ft. Yates. She then studied and apprenticed under several elders on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, including Zona Loans Arrow, who passed on last year.
“Learning to tan hides is not only a cultural and potentially money-making skill”, said Rick DeLoughery, Sitting Bull College Bison Education Coordinator, “but it also puts us in touch with the sacred offering that the animal gave to us: its life.”
There is no fee for either of these workshops. Meals, hides and most supplies will be provided by the Sitting Bull College Bison Education project.
To pre-register for these workshops please call the Sitting Bull College Bear Soldier campus at McLaughlin at 823-4318. People are encouraged to sign up in families of two or three. If you come, please plan to be there all five days, from 8 AM to 4 PM.
Most expenses are paid for by a grant from the USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service.
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| PALEONTOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL on the
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| The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) is pleased to present a unique opportunity to learn about our paleontological wealth by studying and excavating dinosaur fossils on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The field school is the product of cooperation between professional paleontologists, the tribe’s Paleontology Committee, and Sitting Bull College. Under professional guidance, participants will spend two weeks learning the field methods used to find, document, excavate, jacket, and transport dinosaur fossils.
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| Historical Lakota Recordings Gifted to Sitting Bull College |
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FORT YATES, ND – As fund raising continues for a Student Support Center on the new campus, a special collection of 300 compact discs with recorded interviews from the 1950s, 60s and 70’s, along with supporting documents, were donated to Sitting Bull College from the family of the late James E. Emery.
In the early 1950’s, James E. Emery, an electrician for the Black Hills Power & Light Co., began recording culturally relevant events about the Lakota/Dakota nations, with an emphasis placed on songs, chants and stories from elders.
“I wanted these recordings to be stored properly and made available to all Indians across the United States, James W. Emery, son of the late James E. Emery said. “By placing copies of my father’s recordings in libraries at tribal colleges, the Indian people, students and general public have access to them.”
This special collection of recordings titled, the James E. Emery Lakota Language and Music Collection, will be made available to the public through the Sitting Bull College library, which will be housed in the new $2.6 million Student Support Center (Phase I) currently being planned for the new campus.
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