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UMD American Indian Advisory Board Fall Meeting

Charles Nies, Agatha Armstong, Dorothy Olson, Cathy Chavers, Marie Spry, Jody O'Connor, Bobby Deschampe, Bruce Savage

Three times a year the UMD American Indian Advisory Board (AIAB) holds community building meetings at the reservations of the three northern Minnesota Chippewa tribes of Grand Portage, Bois Forte, and Fond du Lac. A recent meeting in Grand Portage featured a meet and greet for UMD’s incoming Chancellor Charles Nies.

Jody O’Connor, director of the American Indian Learning Resource Center, is co-chair of the AIAB. The elected board works to ensure UMD is responsive to the needs of UMD's Native students. It includes two students and representation from the three tribes, including Grand Portage Tribal Chairman Bobby Deschampe, Fond du lac Tribal Chairman Bruce Savage and Bois Forte Tribal Chairwoman Cathy Chavers.

Spring Feast 2024

Student workers tabling during Spring Feast

Spring Feast 2024 was held on March 19 and it featured author Sandy White Hawk. She spoke about the Supreme Court's decision to not overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act, her book "A Child of the Indian Race," and her experience as a Sicangu Lakota adoptee from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

For more information check out the Fox News article.

Spring Feast 2023

Jody O'Connor, Dennis Olson, Rachel Evangelisto, and Iris Carufel at the 2023 Spring Feast

The American Indian Learning Resource Center's Spring Feast event was held on March 29, 2023. As reported by WDIO, "The celebration hosted two guest speakers. UMD alumnus Dennis Olson, the Commissioner of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and Rachel Evangelisto, the 86th Miss Minnesota and alumna of the University of Minnesota Morris."

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