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TCJ Student is excited to announce that renowned author Linda LeGarde Grover (Bois Forte of Ojibwe), professor emeritus of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth, will serve as guest editor for its 2025 edition. She joins a distinguished group of writers, poets, and artists who have previously contributed as guest editors or essayists for TCJ Student, including N. Scott Momaday, Luci Tapahonso, Daniel H. Wilson, Tommy Orange, Tiffany Midge, Gwen Westerman, Kelli Jo Ford, and Richard Van Camp.

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The Museum of the Southeast American Indian at UNC Pembroke will host the 2024 Lumbee Genealogy Symposium titled Fighting for Native America – Lumbee, Coharie & Waccamaw-Siouan in the American Revolution. The event is scheduled for November 14 and 15, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, at Upchurch Auditorium in James A. Thomas Hall. Admission is free, and the public is welcome to attend.

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On Wednesday, Speaker Crystalyne Curley and Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty made a compelling plea for adequate funding for Navajo students during the New Mexico Government to Government Indian Education Summit, emphasizing a student count-based formula.

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The American Indian College Fund is launching a new virtual learning series in collaboration with two of its programs, Ihduwiyayapi: Advancing Indigenous Early Childhood Education and Wounspekiya Unspewicakiyapi Native Teacher Education. The series, titled Dreaming Beyond the Classroom, will begin on October 22 and is designed for early childhood educators as well as elementary and secondary teacher candidates in Indigenous communities. This 5-part series is specifically aimed at supporting new teachers and students at tribal colleges and universities who are preparing to become educators within their communities.

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A survey conducted by the American Indian College Fund (College Fund) revealed that 75% of transfer students surveyed had either not met with a staff or faculty member at their current college or were unsure of whom to contact for guidance during the transfer process. To better support these students and future transfer students, the College Fund is joining National Student Transfer Week, organized by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students.

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Michigan State University (MSU) has named Kevin Leonard as the permanent director of the Native American Institute (NAI), effective August 1, 2024. 

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Wunneanatsu Lamb-Cason, an educator at Riverbend High School in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has been named the 2024 National History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 

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A measure signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday now requires California K-12 students to be taught about the impact on California Native Americans during the Spanish Colonization and Gold Rush Eras in California public schools.

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Four Native American students from California have each received a $10,000 scholarship from the Morongo Band of Mission Indians near Palm Springs through the Tribe’s 19th Annual Rodney T. Mathews Jr. Scholarship Program.

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Nine Indigenous students from across Indian Country were selected to serve as the American Indian College Fund’s (College Fund) 2024-25 student ambassadors. Student ambassadors gain valuable leadership and communications skills while working to create greater visibility of American Indians and Alaska Natives and an understanding of the importance of their cultures. 
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