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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.
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.
In 1971, Marshall was a founding board member of Sinte Gleska University, the Sicangu Lakota's tribal college located at the reservation. He later taught at the college, helping develop a Native American studies curriculum. [2] Marshall helped form a non-profit advocacy group for Native American students and parents.
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.
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.
[2] [3] She completed a M.Ed. in educational leadership at South Dakota State University. [1] [3] Crazy Bull specializes in Native American issues, higher education, and tribal colleges and universities. [1] She was a faculty member, department chair, dean of academic affairs, and vice president of administration at Sinte Gleska University. [4]
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.