Courtesy photos by Cecelia DeAnda
Kristi Martin-Bayya (left) and Liz John (right)
Top left: Barbara Woods
Above: Jane John
Left: Donna Woods
elders Halloween Party
Siletz Tribal Community Center
Oct. 24, 2014
Scholarships and Internships
University of Idaho – Ph.D. IGeRT
Traineeship in water Resources
We invite applications for the National
Science Foundation’s Integrated Graduate
Education and Research Traineeship
(IGERT) Program on Adaptation to
change in water resources – science to
inform decision-making across disci-
plines, cultures and scales.
Doctoral trainees will work in inter-
disciplinary teams to research the drivers
and consequences of changing water
dynamics in the Pacific Northwest.
Doctoral traineeships will start in
June 2015. The first two years will include
a stipend of $30,000 per year, plus tuition
and fees.
For more information, visit uidaho.
edu/cogs/envs-wr/academics/water-
resources/igert-program; email water@
uidaho.edu; or call 208-885-6113.
Applications are due Nov. 15, 2014.
Native Agriculture and Food
Systems Scholarship
First Nations Development Institute
has launched the new First Nations Native
Agriculture and Food Systems Scholar-
ship Program to encourage more Ameri-
can Indian college students to enter the
agricultural sector in Native communities.
First Nations will award six $1,000
scholarships annually to American Indian
college students majoring in agriculture
and related fields, including but not
limited to agribusiness management,
agriscience technologies, agronomy,
animal husbandry, aquaponics, fisheries
and wildlife, food production and safety,
food-related policy and legislation, hor-
ticulture, irrigation science, plant-based
nutrition and sustainable agriculture or
food systems.
More information is available at
firstnations.org/grantmaking/scholarship.
Applications are due Nov. 17, 2014,
by 5 p.m. (MST).
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Undergraduate Transfer
Scholarship
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship
honors excellence by helping outstanding
community college students with financial
need transfer to and complete their bach-
elor’s degrees at the nation’s top four-year
colleges and universities.
The foundation provides up to
$40,000 per year to each of approximately
85 deserving students selected annually.
Each award is intended to cover a
significant share of the student’s educa-
tional expenses – including tuition, living
expenses, books and required fees – for
the final two or three years necessary to
achieve a bachelor’s degree.
Awards vary by individual, based on
the cost of tuition, as well as other grants
or scholarships he or she may receive.
More information is available at jkcf.
org/scholarship-programs/undergraduate-
transfer/.
Applications are due Dec. 2, 2014.
Gates Millennium Scholars
The Gates Millennium Scholars
(G MS) Program, funded by a grant from
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
was established in 1999 to provide out-
standing American Indian/Alaska Native,
African American, Asian Pacific Islander
American and Hispanic American stu-
dents with an opportunity to complete an
undergraduate college education in any
discipline area of interest.
Continuing Gates Millennium Schol-
ars can request funding for a graduate
degree program in one of the follow-
ing discipline areas: computer science,
education, engineering, library science,
mathematics, public health or science.
For more information, visit gmsp.org/.
Applications are due Jan. 14, 2015.
In 2015, the foundation expects to
award 12 internships.
For more information, visit udall.gov/
OurPrograms/Internship/Internship.aspx.
Applications are due Jan. 31, 2015.
Udall Undergraduate Scholarship
Scholarship benefits include:
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Udall Native American
Congressional Internship
The Udall Foundation provides a
10-week summer internship in Washing-
ton, D.C., for American Indian and Alaska
Native students who want to learn more
about the federal government and issues
affecting Indian Country.
The internship is fully funded – the
foundation provides round-trip airfare,
housing, per diem for food and incidentals,
and a stipend at the close of the program.
Interns work in congressional and
agency offices, where they have opportu-
nities to research legislative issues impor-
tant to Tribal communities, network with
key public officials and Tribal advocacy
groups, experience an insider’s view of
the federal government and enhance their
understanding of nation-building and
Tribal self-governance.
The internship program is funded by
the Native Nations Institute for Leader-
ship, Management and Policy, which was
founded by the Udall Foundation and
the University of Arizona in 2001 as a
self-determination, self-governance and
development resource for Native nations.
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Up to $5,000 for tuition, room and
board, or other educational expenses.
Four-day Udall Scholars Orientation
in Tucson, Ariz., to meet with other
scholars, elected officials, environ-
mental and Tribal leaders. All 2015
scholars are required to attend this
event on Aug. 5-9, 2015. The foun-
dation will arrange travel from the
scholar’s home or school; lodging and
meals are provided.
Access to a network of environ-
mental, American Indian health and
Tribal policy professionals through
the Udall alumni listserv.
For more information, visit udall.
gov/OurPrograms/Scholarship/Scholar-
ship.aspx.
Applications are due March 4, 2015.
National Johnson O’Malley
Association Scholarship
The Chief Earl Old Person scholar-
ship is for American Indian senior high
school students.
For more information, visit njoma.
com/ or contact Elsie Dee at edee@sjsd.
org or 435-210-8223; or Clayton Long at
clong@sjsd.org or 801-232-5624.
Applications are due March 6, 2015.
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