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Marchers from Oglala Lakota College celebrating the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2004. Oglala Lakota College (OLC) is a public tribal land-grant community college in Kyle, South Dakota. It enrolls 1,456 students enrolled part- and full-time.
Baccalaureate college: 3,344 1901 [16] HLC, NASM, NCATE: Oglala Lakota College: Kyle: Public Tribal college: 1,177 1971 [17] HLC: Sinte Gleska University: Mission: Private not-for-profit Tribal college: 544 1970 [18] HLC: Sioux Falls Seminary: Sioux Falls: Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution: 1858 [19] HLC, ATSCA: Sisseton Wahpeton ...
In 1971 the tribe founded the Oglala Lakota College, one of the earliest tribal colleges in the nation, and part of Native American institution building of the last 40 years. First started as a two-year community college, it has expanded to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees, as well as a master's in Lakota leadership.
A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the eighth-largest Native American reservation in the United States. The Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Lakota Nation. It was previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
The four founders were Gerald One Feather of the Oglala Sioux Community College (now Oglala Lakota College), David Reisling of D–Q University, Pat Locke of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), and Helen Schierbeck of the United States Office of Education (USOE). [2]
Frank completed elementary and secondary education at Red Cloud Indian School, graduating in 1989. [4] [3] While working and raising her kids, she graduated from Oglala Lakota College (OLC) with an associate's and bachelor's degree (2001) in human services.
The group brought the artifacts home to South Dakota to rest at the Oglala Lakota College until stakeholders decide how to proceed. A Lakota delegation of tribal leaders, youth and descendants ...
Oglala (Lakota: Oglála; [5] "he scatters his own") is a census-designated place (CDP) in West Oglala Lakota Unorganized Territory (civil township) equivalent, [6] Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,282 at the 2020 census. [7] Its location is in the northwest of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.