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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.
The American Indian College Fund is a nonprofit organization that helps Native American students, providing them with support through scholarships and funding toward higher education. The fund provides an average of 6,000 annual scholarships for American Indian students and also provides support for other needs at the tribal colleges ranging ...
Heart of the Earth Survival School was established in January 1972 [2] by members of the American Indian Movement. [3] AIM was able to found the school because of authorization in Title VII of the Indian Education Act, adopted by Congress on June 23, 1972. [4] This act allowed Indians to have control over educating their people.
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 ...
The college moved classrooms and administration to the former Cass Lake High School building in the fall of 1994. In 2005, the college moved to its current location 3 miles west of Cass Lake. In 2015, the college opened a $2.7 million community library, Bezhigoogahbow Library, named after the college founder and first President, Larry P. Aitken.
In 1989, the State of Minnesota appropriated $6,990,000 for the founding of FDLTCC. A new community college site was built and opened to students in 1992. The college's first president Jack Briggs envisioned a college founded to support tribal cultures, tribal values, and tribal spirituality but also committed to equally serve and welcome non ...
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The campus was transferred to the State of Minnesota under the agreement that American Indians would always be admitted free of tuition; the current UMN Morris still follows this policy. [13] In 1910 the University of Minnesota established a coeducational residential high school on the campus called the West Central School of Agriculture (WCSA).