32 colleges, 5,000 scholarships, 30,000 students, innumerable traditions
March 11th, 2007 by Matt
I’ll admit to my ignorance: before stumbling on the the American Indian College Fund, I didn’t even realize that there were tribal colleges, colleges that offer accredited degrees that include traditional Native cultures within the required curriculum.
As I mentioned before, I grew up less than a mile from a Tuscarora reservation, and my mother teaches in a public school district with an elementary school on the same reservation. In short, Indian culture is a big part of my slice of
We owe it to our history to do something. There are more ways to help than to donate money, spread the word, subscribe to the e-newsletter, and shop at the AICF online store. If you live near one of the 32 colleges, consider going to a culture event on the campus or a speaking engagement. This kind of knowledge breeds understanding and helps each of us to reduce notions of ethnocentrism we grew up believing. As such, our empathy, the most progressive of emotions, can only grow.
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