Category: Scholarships
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Oklahoma’s Promise Applications Open Now
Applications for Oklahoma’s Promise are now open! Students who are in 8th-11th Grade can apply to receive a scholarship for college tuition. Acceptance is based on household income. Go to okpromise.org to apply!
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Pathways Internship Program
The Bureau of Indian Affairs offers the Pathways Internship Program, designed to “help Native students join the workforce after finishing school.” College students can get a paid internship without prior work experience through the Pathways program, which can turn into a permanent career if requirements are met. Trainees will be paid based on the federal…
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Apply for the Udall Foundation Native American Congressional Internship
“The Native American Congressional Internship program provides American Indian and Alaska Native students with opportunities to gain practical experience with the federal legislative process and a first-hand understanding of the government-to-government relationship between Native nations and the U.S. government. The Native Nations Institute helps to fund the internship program, which is administered by the Morris K. and Stewart…
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Visiting Indigenous Scholarship Fellowship
The University of Victoria in Canada is establishing a fellowship for a Visiting Indigenous Scholar to be appointed to the faculty. The fellowship is valued at $10,000 for the semester. The application deadline is September 19, 2016. To apply: please submit a cover letter and resume to Dr. Margaret Cameron, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Humanities at margaret@uvic.ca.…
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Via TurtleTalk: New Student Scholarship on Indian Sports Mascots and Nicknames
The BYU Education and Law Journal has published “Between a Tomahawk and a Hard Place: Indian mascots and the NCAA” by Stephanie Jade Bollinger. An excerpt:: Thus, a reviewing court should find that agreements between Native American tribes and Universities granting approval for the use of Indian names as mascots should be void as against public…