For college-bound Tribal seniors ...
June
•
•
•
•
Tribal higher education and adult vocational training applications are due June 30!
Attend graduation – congratulations!
Arrange for your final grades to be sent to colleges and universities.
Good luck!
Other Opportunities
THRIVE (Tribal Health –
Reaching out InVolves Everyone)
Conference
Deadline: June 17
This conference on June 27-July 1 at
Portland State University is funded by
the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Sub-
stance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
Its mission is to reduce suicide rates
among American Indians and Alaska
Natives living in the Pacific Northwest by
increasing Tribal capacity to prevent suicide
and by improving regional collaborations.
We R Native Youth Ambassador
Deadline: June 17
We R Native, a multimedia health
resource for Native youth – by Native youth,
is designed to empower Native teen and
young adults to take an active role in their
own health and well-being. The program is
asking American Indian and Alaska Native
youth age 15-24 to join their team and:
•
•
•
•
Make a positive difference in their
community
Travel to other communities and rep-
resent We R Native
Host community events
Get paid for their time
Learn more about past We R Native
ambassadors and apply online at werna-
tive.org/Ambassador.aspx.
Tribal Climate Change
Photo Contest
Deadline: Aug. 26
Our photo contest asks you to take
a picture of things you (or your Tribe
or village) value and add a short cap-
tion describing how a changing climate
might affect what’s in the photograph. For
example, if you take a picture of people
working, how might climate change affect
their jobs? Will farmers be able to plant
earlier in the spring? Will the road crew
need to use a different tar mix?
Visit globalchange.gov/explore or
http://climate.gov/ for effects on your
region of the country. Then write a caption.
Include your full name, grade and
school after caption (either with the photo
or in the email) and if you agree to the
“terms and conditions.” Submit the photo
at bia_climate_photo_contest@bia.gov
(questions too).
Categories include grades K-5, grades
6-8 and high school.
Next Generation Climate Justice
Action Camp
The Civil Liberties Defense Center
will host the third annual action camp for
youth age 14-18 to gain knowledge and
skills to organize for climate justice. The
camp will include a youth-led public event
focused on a climate justice campaign.
The camp runs from 2 p.m. on July 12
to 10 a.m. on July 19.The camp is located
at Apserkaha Park at Howard Prairie Lake,
40 minutes east of Ashland.
The registration fee is $150, but no
one will be turned away if they can’t afford
the fee. We have full and partial scholar-
ships and try to provide transportation to
those who needs it.
The Student Conservation
Association
Are you a high school student who
is passionate about conservation? Do
you like working as part of a team to get
things done? Join an SCA Community
or National Crew and plug yourself into
SCA’s nationwide network of young con-
servationists – thousands of students who
are as passionate as you are about preserv-
ing wildlands, protecting nature in urban
areas and keeping the planet green.
SCA offers a range of programs for
youth ages 15-19. Whether you want to
serve in your local community or explore
public lands across the country, SCA has
something for you.
The SMART Competition
This program engages students in a
real-world technology education chal-
lenge designed to combine academic
relevance, education achievement and
applications of technology. The com-
petition helps develop workforce and
life skills, including computer analysis
and software design, verbal and written
communication, research, teamwork and
problem solving.
Students will achieve an increased
awareness of the smart grid, green build-
ing design, the environment, community,
livability and sustainability-related issues.
Scholarships
Duane Heglie and the Nez Perce
Trail Foundation Scholarship
Deadline: June 30
Carol Jorgensen Scholarship for
Environmental Stewardship
Deadline: September
Two scholarships of $500 will be
awarded to two American Indians at the
Tamkaliks Celebration & Friendship Feast
this summer.
This scholarship provides funds to a
full time student pursuing an undergradu-
ate degree in an environmental steward-
ship discipline, including environmental
studies, natural resource management, the
natural sciences, public administration,
public policy, and related disciplines.
We hope that these scholarships will
help further our cause of promoting cultural
understanding, appreciation, pride, educa-
tion, scholarly advancement and success.
American Indian Services
Scholarships
Deadline: Aug. 15
American Indian Services, a 501(c)
(3) non-profit headquartered in Utah,
provides thousands of educational schol-
arships to American Indians from any fed-
erally recognized Tribe who attend more
than 400 accredited colleges, universities
and trade schools.
These help students afford a college
education. Students pay for half or more
of their college tuition and the scholarship
makes up the difference.
Catching the Dream
Deadline: Sept. 15
CTD’s objective is to recognize and
reward outstanding student achievement.
All awards are based on merit, academic
achievement and ambition. Students must
attend a college or university on a full-
time basis, seeking a bachelor’s degree
or higher.
Catching the Dream scholarships are
awarded for life. If you win, you will never
have to apply again. If you are not selected
for scholarship with CTD, however, you
cannot apply again.
Xerox Minority Scholarship
Deadline: Sept. 30
Xerox is committed to the academic
success of all minority students. That’s
why we offer a Technical Minority Schol-
arship that awards between $1,000 and
$10,000 to qualified minorities enrolled in
a technical degree program at the bachelor
level or above.
Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate
Scholarship Program
Deadline: September 2016 to
January 2017
This program provides successful
undergraduate applicants with awards
that include academic assistance (up to a
maximum of $9,500 per year) for full-time
study during the nine-month academic year;
a 10-week, full-time internship position
($700/week) during the summer at a NOAA
facility; and academic assistance (up to a
maximum of $9,500) for full-time study
during a second nine-month academic year.
The internship between the first and
second years of the award provides the
scholars with hands-on practical educa-
tional training experience in NOAA-related
science, research, technology, policy, man-
agement, and education activities.
Educational Partnership Program
Undergraduate Scholarship
Program
Deadline: September 2016 to
January 2017
This program provides scholarships
for two years of undergraduate study
to rising junior undergraduate students
majoring in science, technology, engineer-
ing and mathematics (STEM) fields that
directly support NOAA’s mission. Partici-
pants conduct research at a NOAA facility
during two paid summer internships.
Students attending Minority Serving
Institutions as defined by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Education (Hispanic serving
institutions, historically Black colleges and
universities, Tribal colleges and universi-
ties, Alaskan Native-serving institutions
and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions)
are eligible to apply for the program.
American Indian areas, including Colville Reservation,
named as test sites in preparation for 2020 Census
The U.S. Census Bureau announced in
April that it plans to conduct the 2017 Cen-
sus Test in selected Tribal areas in Wash-
ington, North Dakota and South Dakota
and in a sample of addresses nationwide.
The 2017 Census Test will allow the
Census Bureau to test the feasibility of
collecting Tribal enrollment informa-
tion. It also will refine our methods for
enumerating areas with unique location
characteristics where we cannot mail to
a street address.
In addition to Tribal areas, the test will
oversample areas with relatively high popu-
lations of American Indians and Alaska
Natives as a mechanism for testing potential
Tribal enrollment questions nationwide.
The 2017 Census Test will allow the
Census Bureau to test the integration of
systems for the Update Enumerate opera-
tion. Update Enumerate is a data collection
operation where census field staff visit
households to update the list of addresses
and count the people at each address.
Conducting this test will require hir-
ing temporary census staff. Recruiting for
local jobs will begin in September 2016.
This operation typically occurs in
areas where we have a low likelihood of
mail delivery, American Indian reserva-
tions and communities with very small
populations.
The test supports the goal of the 2020
Census, which is to count everyone once,
only once and in the right place.
The test will take place on two Ameri-
can Indian areas — the Colville Indian
Reservation and off-reservation trust land
in Washington and the Standing Rock
Reservation in North Dakota and South
Dakota. Approximately 3,500 and 2,900
housing units (respectively) within the
areas will participate.
The Road to the 2020 Census
As 2020 Census operations move
forward, the Census Bureau will continue
to improve the use of mobile technology,
administrative records, innovations from the
geospatial industry and self-response via the
Internet that will support the 2020 Census.
This test will provide insights and guide
our planning to ensure an accurate census.
For infor mation, visit census.
gov/2017censustests.
June 2016
•
Siletz News
•
15