Hope on the Rez
The American Indian College Fund (the Fund) has released a new five-minute documentary video describing how the Fund improves the lives of American Indian college students attending tribal colleges and universities. The Fund, along with its longtime Portland, Oregon-based advertising agency partner, Wieden+Kennedy, traveled to Indian country to record Native students telling their powerful stories. A team of professional cinematographers, photographers, and sound engineers toured tribal colleges and universities and attended graduation ceremonies. As the cameras rolled, students, elders, tribal college presidents, and community members described the miracles that cultural-based education through tribal colleges is producing for people of all ages. Richard B. Williams, the Fund president and CEO, says “The American Indian College Fund video is a unique opportunity to see a very important part of Indian country. We are educating the mind and the spirit, and this it is captured in the video.” The Denver-based American Indian College Fund is the nation’s largest provider of private scholarships for American Indian students, providing 5000 scholarships annually for students seeking to better their lives and communities through education. For more information about the American Indian College Fund or to make a donation, visit www.collegefund.org.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
no offense, but studies show that students who listen to rap/hip hop are not as smart as those who don’t.
February 15th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
because we UNITED and fought for it, its a big part of american history cicil right MOVEMENT we boycotted and hit the apressors pockets you take away their money you force then to change things we opened up schools food drives policed our own streets learned the law and beat bogus ciurt cases. I am also Tsalagi and lets look at this we’re divied there are 7 diff clans in my tribe about 5% rez speak tsalagi and there are 3 diff dialects. iff all native came to gether and fought change would b see
February 15th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
im Native american..about 78% and i have other mixed cultures behind that but im very endulged in my culture becuase i believe that all of us can fix the bad things that happen on the rez.
February 15th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
LOLOLOL INDIANS NEED JESUS…
February 15th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
no natives dont need jesus,, they need a white man with stronger bitch hand ,
stop feeding these rats , thats it no more , they r fukin unfixabl ,,,
they talk alot about changin but still the same shit
arnt they ashame of wat they r already
February 15th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
navajo
February 15th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
awho…waste…
February 16th, 2010 at 1:55 am
I agre and I’m both tsalagi and african american
February 16th, 2010 at 4:08 am
what’s wrong with hip hop? not all hip hop is bad like any other sub culture or music .
February 16th, 2010 at 5:01 am
yes there are differences among different natives and as a person who is native and black im not welcomed by many natives because of it there are even documents and blood percentages that were put in to effect by my own native people that exclude many form their culture and it discuss me and so many are racist and also bitter because of what white settlers did to our people but are doing the same themselfs. makes me sad.