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Jeannette Henry Costo and Rupert Costo, with a Ford Foundation grant, helped plan the First Convocation of American Indian Scholars. [1] This brought together a mix of Indian educators that were actively involved in the education of Native students in elementary, secondary schools, and university programs.
It carries out this purpose by: awarding fellowships to scholars and artists to carry out their research and artistic projects in India; by operating intensive programs in a variety of Indian languages in India; by sponsoring conferences, workshops and outreach activities; by supporting U.S. study abroad and service learning programs in India ...
She was a tribal judge and was the first female Indian attorney in Minnesota. [2] Anton Treuer grew up in and around the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota and went to high school in Bemidji. [3] He earned a BA from Princeton University in 1991 and an MA in 1994 and PhD in 1996 from the University of Minnesota. [citation needed]
As of 2008, the Fund had provided 143,281 scholarships and $237.1 million to support American Indian communities. The Fund is the largest and highest-rated American Indian nonprofit organization in the United States. [27] [28] Other scholarship programs are sometimes unique to a specific program, geographic, area or tribe.
Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Dallas; UT Health San Antonio, School of Dentistry, San Antonio; University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry, Houston; Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), since 1972, has been the collective spirit and voice of our nation’s Tribal Colleges and Universities, advocating on behalf of individual institutions of higher education that are defined and controlled by their respective tribal nations.
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Nimi McConigley, first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996 (Republican) Aruna Miller , 10th Lt. Governor of Maryland and the first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the United States , [ 27 ] (Democratic)