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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.
A tribal university (Sinte Gleska University) on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota was named for him in 1971. [46] In 2024 Spotted Tail's descendent John Spotted Tail received a suitcase of artifacts Spotted Tail had given to Indian Agent Major Cicero Newell; after five generations the artifacts were returned to the Lakota. [47]
[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.
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.