Today, there’s an alarming shortage of Native Americans engaged in post-high school education. For example, a scant 74 of 24,000 students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln identify themselves as Natives only. There are more than five times as many students from India at UNL as there are American Indians.
A new scholarship fund for Native American students has been established to correct that imbalance and narrow the gap. Nebraska author Joe Starita is using the proceeds from the sale of his book, I Am A Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice, to fund an endowed scholarship program for persons of Native American heritage living in the state of Nebraska. The biography was the 2012 selection for the One Book-One Nebraska program.
The Chief Standing Bear Journey for Justice Scholarship honors a Ponca chief who walked 600 miles through snow and cold to bury his only son. His landmark civil rights victory
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