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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.
The three tribal colleges, Oglala Lakota College, Sinte Gleska University, and Sisseton Wahpeton College are each governed independently by boards. [48] [49] [50] All public technical colleges are governed by the South Dakota Board of Technical Education under the South Dakota Department of Education. [51]
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.
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 College: Agency Village: Public Tribal college: 187 1979 ...
Most employment on the reservation is provided by community institutions, such as the tribal Oglala Lakota College, and other schools; the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); and the U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS). In October 2016, the tribe opened an 80-bed nursing home; at full operation, it should employ 100 staff.
Bacone College, Muskogee (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Carl Albert State College, Poteau (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, Weatherford (defunct) College of the Muscogee Nation, Okmulgee; Comanche Nation College, Lawton (defunct)
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.
In 1985, First Nations Development Institute and the Oglala Lakota College helped to support the creation of Lakota Funds, the first Native American Community Development Financial Institution on a reservation. [5] The Oweesta Program was created in 1986 as a model of a Community Development Financial Institution in Native American communities ...