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Sinte Gleska University (SGU) is a public tribal land-grant university in Mission, South Dakota, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. It is a Brulé Lakota Indian Reservation home to the Sicangu (Burnt Thigh). SGU has an enrollment of 828 full and part-time students. [1] It is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. [2]
Sinte Gleska University president (1973–2022) Lionel Raphael Bordeaux ( Lakota : Wakinyan Wanbli , lit. 'Thundering Eagle'; February 9, 1940 – November 16, 2022) was a Sicangu Lakota educator, advocate, and president of Sinte Gleska University (SGU) from 1973 until his death in 2022.
Augustana University, situated in Sioux Falls, is the largest not-for-profit private university with a spring 2012 enrollment of 1,871 students in attendance. Sioux Falls Seminary , a Baptist seminary located in the city of the same name, is the state's smallest post-secondary institution, as it had a spring 2012 enrollment of 141 students.
Truly a wonderful event today at Sinte Gleska University. 5th Generation descendant of Spotted Tail, Chief John Spotted Tail put on display the recently returned original Spotted Tail headdress.
Mission is a city on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in northern Todd County, South Dakota, United States.The population was 1,156 at the 2020 census. [6]Mission is home of the Sinte Gleska University.
The tribe has developed Sinte Gleska University on the reservation. The tribal university is named after the 19th-century Sioux war chief and statesman, whose name in English was Spotted Tail. St. Francis Indian School (Sicangu Oyate Ho, Inc.), in Saint Francis is a private Catholic institution first established as a mission school.
The Lakota Nation Invitational is an annual multi-sport event tournament held each winter that began in 1976. The event takes place in the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City and hosts around 40 different schools from Indian Reservations in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. [1]
The tribe also operates the Lower Brule Community College, accredited under Sinte Gleska University of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. In addition, the tribe is involved in a video-cultural program in which students, teachers and elders document important cultural activities and histories.