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Register to vote Share Your Voting Story Featured News American Indian College Fund Student-Designed Pendleton Blanket Drum Keepers” Available for Purchase Winning Design Created by Little Priest Tribal College Student, Trey Blackhawk March 26, 2024, Denver, Colo.— The 2023 winning Tribal College Blanket Design, Drum Keepers, is now available for purchase. The blanket is the latest addition to Pendleton Woolen Mills’ American Indian College Fund collection. The acclaimed lifestyle brand from Portland, Oregon has created wool blankets in partnership with the College Fund for more than 20 years. A portion of the blanket line’s sales provide approximately $50,000 in annual Native student scholarships. Pendleton also contributes to a scholarship endowment that, combined with the total of scholarships disbursed, exceeds $2.5 million. Trey Blackhawk (Winnebago) is a graduate of Little Priest Tribal College with a degree in liberal arts who is currently working on an applied sciences degree. His design, Drum Keepers, was selected from 59 submissions. Read More Emily White Hat featured by the Bezos Family Foundation In our series, ‘One Bright Idea,’ our partners are sharing what fuels their optimism as they push ahead with their impactful work. Here’s what Emily White Hat at the American Indian College Fund had to say about the current generation and beyond.” Our Impact MILLION Invested into Native Communities SCHOLARSHIPS Awarded since 1989 % OF OUR SCHOLARS Give back to their communities How Your Donations are Used 4% Management and General 23% Fundraising 73% Scholarships, Programs, and Public Education A Commitment to Donors Guidestar 2023 Gold Seal of Transparency Best Charity Certified by America’s best charities Charity Navigator View our Charity Navigator profile BBB Wise Giving Alliance View our give.org charity profile Learn More About Our Organization Tribal Colleges and Universities Tribal colleges and universities provide dynamic higher education opportunities, most on or near reservation lands. Known for their remarkable programs, culturally-relevant curricula, and familial student care – tribal colleges allow students to further their careers, attain an advanced degree, or better support their communities. Learn More About Tribal Colleges News Center President’s Blog Featured News Students Programs From Our President Cheryl Crazy Bull, President American Indian College Fund President and CEO to Host Webinar Series Apr 9, 2024 American Indian College Fund (College Fund) President and CEO, Cheryl Crazy Bull, will be hosting a three-part webinar series titled Native Higher Education Insights.” Over the course of three sessions, she will cover what’s changed in the higher education environment post-pandemic and news from the various tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and Native students. American Indian College Fund Hosting Online Book Discussion with Indigenous Author Mona Susan Power Feb 20, 2024 PEN Award–winning author Mona Susan Power, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta), will discuss her latest novel, A Council of Dolls, March 26 at 12:00 noon Mountain Daylight Time with Cheryl Crazy Bull, President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund. Registration is free and open to the public. Fix FAFSA! (federal financial aid) Feb 14, 2024 The Department of Education announced the week of February 5 that schools and agencies involved in financial aid will not receive FAFSA information—which determines student total financial aid offerings – until the first half of March. This will set college applicants behind another two months in their decision-making. Read More From The President’s Blog Featured News American Indian College Fund Awards Three-Year American Indian Law School Scholarship to Jade Araujo to Attend Harvard Law School May 9, 2024 Jade Araujo, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) in Massachusetts and a descendant of the Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan tribes in Alaska, is the third person to have been awarded the American Indian College Fund Law School Scholarship. Araujo is a senior at Stanford University who will graduate in June with a degree in political science and will enter Harvard Law School in the fall. She is the daughter of Todd Araujo (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Jaeleen Kookesh (Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan). Celebrate Native Teachers! May 7, 2024 The American Indian College Fund provides the next generation of Native teachers with the support they need—financial and otherwise—to succeed in their important education careers, while also supporting tribal colleges and universities with teacher education programs to provide them with a quality education. Together we are working to ensure Native voices and perspectives are seen and heard in the classroom—and Native students have the support to succeed. National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) May 3, 2024 Women and girls are sacred in Native communities and the disproportionate rates of violence against Native women is deeply concerning. More than four out of five of our Native mothers, aunts, sisters, and daughters experienced violence (84.3%) in 2022, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics. Read More Featured News Student News American Indian College Fund Awards Three-Year American Indian Law School Scholarship to Jade Araujo to Attend Harvard Law School May 9, 2024 Jade Araujo, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) in Massachusetts and a descendant of the Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan tribes in Alaska, is the third person to have been awarded the American Indian College Fund Law School Scholarship. Araujo is a senior at Stanford University who will graduate in June with a degree in political science and will enter Harvard Law School in the fall. She is the daughter of Todd Araujo (Aquinnah Wampanoag) and Jaeleen Kookesh (Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan). American Indian College Fund Hosts Virtual Annual Summer of Success Conference May 2, 2024 The American Indian College Fund (College Fund) will host its Fifth Annual Summer of Success Conference: Cultivating Connections into Success from May 19 to May 21. This three-day, interactive online event is tailored to high school and college students, staff, faculty, and families, centering Native culture, experiences, and determinants of college success. Additional Scholarship Updates for 2024 Apr 16, 2024 Our Scholarships Update is a... Read More Student News News from our Progams Team College Fund Programs Team Striving to be a Leader for the Next Generation May 9, 2024 A blog by Heather Burshia (enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes), FPCC, Program Director and a 2023-2024 Indigenous Visionaries Fellow. My Journey May 9, 2024 A submission for the Elder Story Series by Cheri Nelson (Diné/Navajo), hosted by the American Indian College Fund. Making Good on a Promise for the Next Generation Apr 25, 2024 Roberta Miller, a recent HSED graduate at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University, at age 51, proves it is never too late to continue one’s education. Read More From...