TheAmerican Indian GRADUATE Inside this Issue: Fall 2016 • President’s Message • A Message from the Director • Fracturing Families • Indigenous Language Revitalization • ANAHSAT • Achieving through Healing, Hozho • Gates Millennium Scholars • AIGC Installs New Board Leadership • And more… The American Indian Graduate is now available online at aigcs.org An easy way for federal employees to donate — 11514 American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) See story on page 47 AIGC Website - aigcs.org The AIGC website serves as an interactive resource for students, graduates, professionals, educators and donors wishing to know more about programs, services and funding opportunities. 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Bowannie (Zuni Pueblo/Cochiti Pueblo) Design and Layout 12 Achieving through Healing, Hozho Carolyn S. Tate Remembering by Alastair Lee Bitsoi AIGC Board of Directors Rose Graham, President 14 ANAHSAT Navajo All Native American High School Academic Team Selected Joel Frank, Vice President for Academic Year 2016-2017 Seminole Tribe of Florida by Joshua Lucio Steven Stallings, 16 For the Love of Music Secretary/Treasurer Classical Pianist, Chemistry Major and Former Miss Indian, New Mexico Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians by Renata Yazzie Members at Large 18 Gates Millennium Scholar/Ashley Nixon Dana Arviso Stop the Cycle: Set Goals, Self-Reflect and Have Patience Diné by Ashley Nixon Danna Jackson Confederated Salish and Gates Millennium Counselor/Augusta Smith 20 Kootenai Tribes GMS: A Formula for a Future Walter Lamar by Augusta Smith Blackfeet, Wichita 22 Gates Millennium Scholar/Corey Still Stacy Leeds Raised in a Life of Affluent Cultural Luxury Cherokee Nation by Corey Still Holly Cook Macarro 23 Gates Millennium Scholar/Falisha Begay Red Lake Band of Ojibwe “Be Still and the Earth Will Speak to You” Continued on page 4 Cover Images: William Pacheco by Falisha Begay The American Indian Graduate 3 Table of Contents, continued 24 Gates Millennium Scholar/Tiffany Locklear 38 Gates Millennium Scholars/Tanya Powers Introduction The Gates Millennium Scholarship and AIGC by Tiffany Locklear Transformed My Life by Tanya Powers 26 Gates Millennium Scholar/Miquela Taffa American Indian Ancestral Cuisine 40 From Matriculation to Graduation How student driven efforts have brought food Preparing Emerging Social Work sovereignty to Washington University in St. Louis Professionals for Competent Practice in by Miquela Taffa American Indian Country 28 Gates Millennium Scholar/Dominic Clichee by Cynthia D Williams and Rachel John Understanding and Building, Based on 41 GMS Essay/Hanna-Marie Lucero Navajo National Health Indicators A “Brave Girl” Story from Santa Fe Indian School by Dominic Clichee, MPH by Hanna-Marie Lucero 29 Gates Millennium Scholar/Sara Barnett 42 Gates Millennium Scholar/Keandre Hairston The Gates Millennium Scholarship Hitting the Lottery… An Opportunity That Changed My Life The Educational Lottery through the GMS Program by Sara Barnett, Muscogee (Creek) by Keandre Hairston 32 Family 43 Gates Millennium Scholar/Maka Monture One GMS Alumna Story Resilience is in Our DNA by Sara LaBarge, M.S.Ed., GMS Class of 2004 by Maka Monture 34 Gates Millenium Scholar/Tyson Jeannotte 44 Gates Millennium Scholar/Shandiin Herrera The Culture Shock Initially Experienced From Dreaming to Believing to Becoming an by American Indian Students at Public Amazing Student Universities is More Frightening and by Shandiin Herrera Powerful Than One Would Think! AIGC 8th Annual Reception by Tyson Jeannotte, Gates Millennium Scholar, 46 University of North Dakota class of 2015 American Indian Graduate Center Recognizes Indian Country Leaders During 35 American Indian Scholarship Counselor/ 8th Annual Reception Debbie Golden Davis Building Relationships 47 Santa Fe Indian School Gates Scholars Recipients by Debbie Golden Davis Eight High Achieving New Mexico Native Students Receive Financial Support from the 37 AIGC New Board Leadership Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Board of Directors at Native Scholarship by Stephine Poston Organization Represents a Breadth of Expertise by Stephine Poston 48 Know Before U Go A Guide to College Readiness by Josh Lucio Contact Us Mailing List: If you are not currently on our mailing list and would American Indian Graduate Center, like to receive future issues, please call or write to the address below. 3701 San Mateo Blvd., NE, #200 Albuquerque, NM 87110, Advertising: To advertise in The American Indian Graduate, please (505) 881-4584 phone, (505) 884-0427 fax contact Mario Ortega, or send an e-mail to: [email protected] Article Submissions: Submit all articles to Consulting Editor Stephine Visit us On-Line! www.aigcs.org Poston, [email protected] or Mario Ortega, [email protected] 2016 AIGC, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprints and Permissions: Reprints of published articles and artwork are prohibited without permission of the American Indian Published submissions and advertisements do not necessarily reflect Graduate Center. the view of AIGC, Inc. 4 The American Indian Graduate Message from the President A Historic Year for American Indian Graduates by Rose Graham President, AIGC Board of Directors as the newly elected President of the American Indian Graduate Center Board of Directors, I’m A excited to introduce the fall 2016 American Indian Graduate Magazine. The graduation season of 2016 had all the hallmarks of a successful academic milestone – caps and gowns, brimming smiles of young graduates, eyes shining with anticipation, proud parents and tribal leaders and – of course – a new class of AIGC scholars and scholarship recipients. Rose Graham The graduation season of 2016 also had some events of historic value. The Santa Fe Indian School, a tribally- owned school established to educate Native American Santa Fe Indian School teacher, Christie Abeyta, children from the tribes throughout the southwest, made summed up the experience with her ever-encouraging history with the recent release of Gates Millennium reflection. “There are no words to express how special Scholars from the 2016 graduating class. The cover of this is for our communities, for the Pueblo people of this magazine highlights some of those moments. New Mexico, for all of Native America.” The Santa Fe Indian School 2016 graduating class The historic events of the 2016 graduation season ranks as the highest producer of Gates Millennium brought new light and energy to a class of high school Scholars in the State of New Mexico, and among the graduates and all those who have supported them along top five schools in the nation with this distinction. Eight the way. Santa Fe Indian School 2016 graduates were awarded this In the decades since it was founded, AIGC has grown prestigious scholarship. in both its capacity to serve graduate students and its reach to support all levels of post-secondary education, The Santa Fe Indian School which include technical schools, undergraduate pro- grams, as well as graduate professional degrees. 2016 graduating class ranks as As we conclude the 2016 graduation season and wel- come our newest class of AIGC scholarship recipients, I’m the highest producer of Gates reminded of the ever-growing responsibility the AIGC net- Millennium Scholars in the State work has, to sustain the services available to the American Indian and Alaska Native population of students. ✦ of New Mexico. Sincerely, It seems fitting, then, that the First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Michelle Obama, would also be present at the commencement ceremonies of the Santa Fe Indian School 2016 graduating class. Her attendance and thoughtful commencement speech words gave Rose Graham credence to the efforts of all the students at Santa Fe President of the American Indian Graduate Center Indian School. The American Indian Graduate 5 Message from the Director The Graduation Season by Joan Currier AIGC Interim Executive Director he graduation season is always an exciting time for AIGC. From our perspective, graduations fall Talong a continuum of many