Sitting Bull College’s Welding Program is featured in national publication Welding Journal. View full article here: Welding Journal – Sitting Bull College Looks to Expand Its Welding Program On and Off the Standing Rock Reservation, November 2018.
Sitting Bull College’s Welding Program is featured in national publication Welding Journal. View full article here: Welding Journal – Sitting Bull College Looks to Expand Its Welding Program On and Off the Standing Rock Reservation, November 2018.
October 19, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts:
Yuliya Manyakina, Wichakini Owayawa Project Director, Lakhol’iyapi
Wahohpi/Wichakini Owayawa at Sitting Bull College,
Yuliya.Manyakina@sitingbull.edu , 701-854-8056
Koreen Ressler, Vice President of Operations, Sitting Bull College
Koreen.Ressler@sittingbull.edu , 701-854-8001
Wichakini Owayawa at Sitting Bull College Awarded $1.5 Million Department of Education Grant
FORT YATES, ND – The Wichakini Owayawa (“New Life for the People School”) Dakota/Lakota immersion school at Sitting Bull College has been awarded a five-year $1.5 million grant under the Native American and Alaska Native Children in School (NAM) program from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition. The goal of the NAM program is to “support the teaching, learning, and studying of Native American languages while also increasing the English language proficiency and academic achievement of students served”. This is Wichakini Owayawa’s first grant from the Department of Education.
To date, students at the Wichakini Owayawa have received their education in 100% D/Lakota. The award, titled “Makhasitomni Nunpakiye Manipi – They Walk in Two Worlds”, will support Wichakini Owayawa’s expansion to grades 4-8, giving new and existing students the opportunity to continue in their progress toward high-level, age appropriate language proficiency in D/Lakota, while also receiving English reading and writing instruction.
The program aims to serve 30 students ages 5-14 who will attain academic proficiency in both languages. Families will also receive support for home literacy practices, including recommended reading in D/Lakota and English as well as English Language Learner (ELL) training with school instructors.
The Wichakini Owayawa will continue revitalizing the D/Lakota language, while promoting bilingualism and biliteracy. “We are losing the Lakota language, but we still have some fluent speakers. This grant will help bring our parents and fluent speakers together to continue saving our language. The word Wicháyukini means ‘waking them up’. That time is now,” says Michael Kills Pretty Enemy Sr., fluent speaker and teacher at the Wichakini Owayawa.
Wichakini Owayawa is a K-4 Dakota/Lakota immersion school, located on the main campus of Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, ND. The school started as the Lakhol’iyapi Wahohpi (“Lakota Language Nest”) immersion preschool program in 2012, and has since grown to include grades K-3 with support from the Administration for Native Americans (ANA). The school’s vision is “Fluent speakers, sovereign thinkers”.
To learn more about the school visit http://www.wotakuye.weebly.com
See full article by SBC Instructor Francis Onduso in the Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology 8(3): 306–312 (2018) ISSN 2229-2225 here: https://www.creamjournal.org/pdf/CREAM_8_3_2.pdf.
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work Program Approved
Sitting Bull College has officially been approved through the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to offer a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Work. Classes for the program will begin in the fall 2018. In addition, Sitting Bull College will continue working toward full program accreditation from the Council for Social Work Education (CSWE). Koreen Ressler, Vice President of Operations is excited that the College continues to expand it Bachelor programs to meet the needs of the Standing Rock Reservation.
Sitting Bull College will offer the Social Work program through the interactive video network (IVN) system at the Mobridge and McLaughlin sites and face-to-face at the main campus in Fort Yates. In addition the College is also working with the Candeska Cikana Community College in Fort Totten, North Dakota to provide distance education to their region.
Students entering this program need to have completed their Associates degree in Human Services prior to application or within their last semester of their program. Interested individuals need to apply to Sitting Bull College and the Bachelor of Social Work program.
For more information you can go to http://www.sittingbull.edu or you can contact Dr. Koreen Ressler, Vice President of Operations at 701-854-8001 or by email at koreen.ressler@sittingbull.edu.
Sitting Bull College student Kaylie Trottier has received a Spirit of Sovereignty award scholarship from the National Indian Gaming Association.
Kaylie, as profiled in the article “works two jobs and drives 100 miles round trip to attend Sitting Bull College on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. The mother of two young children, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is working on a business degree. ‘I am pursuing higher education now,’ she said, ‘to show my girls how important education is.'” We at Sitting Bull College are glad she is! Congratulations, Kaylie.
To read the full article, click or see below:
http://www.pechanga.net/content/tribal-leaders-charity-slot-tournament-supports-spirit-sovereignty
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Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction
Mafany Mongoh, Professor, Ag/Science, Sitting Bull College, is among three faculty from tribal colleges in North Dakota and the state’s primarily undergraduate institutions who are collaborating with NDSU faculty in ND EPSCoR’s Track-1 Emerging Area Seed project. The three research groups are award recipients from the recent project competition. Each award is for $25,000 to augment ongoing intellectual merit and/or broader impact components of the project and develop more collaborative efforts between the ND EPSCoR centers for sustainable materials science (CSMS) and regional climate studies (CRCS). Jiang Long, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, NDSU, is the grant’s overall principal investigator.
Other award recipients, their departments, and institutions are:
Andre Delorme, Professor, Science, Valley City State University, and Eakalak Khan, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, NDSU, the grant’s overall principal investigator.
Kerry Hartman, Dean, Sciences, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, and Dilpreet Bajwa, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, NDSU, the grant’s overall principal investigator.
North Dakota EPSCoR is a federally and state funded program designed to improve the ability of university researchers to compete more effectively for federal, regional and private research grants in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.
10-18-2016
For More Information Contact:
Elizabeth Jung
1735 NDSU Research Park Drive
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105-5760
(701) 231-1048
Sitting Bull College staff from the immersion program as well as the Lakota Summer Institute recently took part in a weekend celebrating the language. To read more see:
Rapid City Journal: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/weekend-to-help-bring-language-back-to-life/article_f4c36e4f-e358-55cc-8285-adde878c53fe.html
El Periódico de Catalunya: http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/noticias/opinio/llengua-lakota-sioux-pas-mes-per-recuperar-se-5026710
Programs at Sitting Bull College have been hard at work with revitalizing the Lakota and Dakota languages. AICF and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have shown a commitment to these efforts with a $1.5 million grant, Restorative Teachings, for 5 colleges including Sitting Bull College. Read more here: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/03/30/college-fund-launches-early-childhood-education-program-five-tribal-colleges-163962