Apply to Sapsik’ w ałá Teacher Education Program at University of Oregon
The Sapsik’ w ałá Teacher Education
Program and the UOTeach Program (mas-
ter’s in education: curriculum and teach-
ing) are looking for American Indian/
Alaska Native students who have a desire
and passion to become an elementary
or middle/high school teacher. It is time
to apply to join us for the 2018-2019
academic year. Applications are due Jan.
15, 2018.
The Sapsik’ w ałá Teacher Education
Program offers full financial assistance to
eligible American Indian/Alaska Native
students. Eligible applicants must be Trib-
ally enrolled or have an enrolled parent or
grandparent).
The program is 15 months long, fully
funded (tuition, fees, books, supplies,
living stipend – total support package is
approximately $50,000 per student) and
requires you to live in Eugene, Ore., while
you complete the program.
Participants complete service pay-
back of their training expenses by teaching
in eligible schools for an amount of time
equivalent to their training.
Prospective students need to have
completed their undergraduate education
and apply through the admissions process
of UOTeach. They will earn their master’s
in education: curriculum and teaching
degree, as well as teacher licensure.
To apply and review the admis-
sion requirements for UOTeach, visit
heducation.uoregon.edu/uo-teach-k-
12-teacher-licensure-and-masters-curric-
ulum-and-teaching/admissions by Jan. 15.
To learn more about our Sapsik’ w ałá
Program, visit education.uoregon.edu/
program/sapsikwala-project.
Please contact us for guidance through
the application process
We are entering our 17 th year of train-
ing highly qualified American Indian/
Alaska Native teachers and we are proud
of our 100 percent graduation rate! Our 81
alumni, all of whom have earned a master’s
degree from the University of Oregon’s
College of Education, represent 41 Tribes.
The program is guided by Indigenous
cultural values and is directed by Ameri-
can Indian faculty and staff, and reports
to a Tribal Advisory Council with repre-
sentatives from the nine Tribes of Oregon.
UO has a vibrant American Indian
community, with student organizations
including the Native American Student
Union (organizers of the popular UO
Mother’s Day Pow-Wow); the Many
Nations Longhouse on campus, with
weekly potluck community dinners; a
brand new academic residence hall that
has a Native American Studies floor; a
Native American Studies Program led by
Courtesy photo
Graduates of the Sapsik’wałá Teacher Education Program
American Indian faculty; the Northwest
Indian Language Institute; the oppor-
tunity to engage with Tribal elders and
language teachers and learners, including
the Ichishkíin/Sahaptin language class;
and a dedicated meeting and study room
for Sapsik’ w ałá students and alumni at the
College of Education.
Please contact us – we look forward
to hearing from you and supporting your
dream of becoming a teacher whose
knowledge and skills are much-needed in
the educational experiences of American
Indian/Alaska Native youth.
Michelle Jacob, Ph.D. (Yakama Nation)
Program Director
Five Native documentaries to watch in November on PBS
Kelly LaChance (Siletz Tribe)
Assistant Program Director
Just in time for Native American Heri-
tage Month, Vision Maker Media presents
five new films that examine the contribu-
tions of Native people in helping to build
America’s infrastructure, the impact of
public policy and historical trauma on
Native Tribes and how one Tribe is provid-
ing opportunities for youth.
Email address: sapsikwala@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2454
These documentary films provide
historical context as well as modern
insight on key issues affecting American
Indians. Two films explore how American
Indian youth surmount major issues that
affect their Tribes. One charts Native
contributions to maintaining America’s
infrastructure and two others review how
Natives cope with historical trauma and
how they protect their sovereignty.
Lake of Betrayal looks at the Seneca
Nation’s fight to protect its sovereignty
against a backdrop of a federal Indian
Termination policy, pork-barrel politics
and undisclosed plans for private hydro-
power generation. The documentary takes
a long view of the imposed changes on the
Seneca’s way of life that have led to major
economic benefits and irreplaceable cul-
tural losses (distributed by NETA).
Lake of Betrayal Producers: Paul D.
Lamont and Scott Sackett
The Mayors of Shiprock follows
a group of young Navajo leaders in
Shiprock, N.M., who meet weekly to
decide how they will help their commu-
nity. For more than seven years, the North-
ern Diné Youth Committee has worked to
give youth opportunities to directly make
changes within their community (distrib-
uted by WORLD™).
The Mayors of Shiprock Producer:
Ramona Emerson
We Breathe Again explores the
intimate stories of five Alaska Natives
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who are each confronting the impacts of
historical trauma in their lives (distributed
by America Reframed).
We Breathe Again Producers: Evon
Peter, Marsh Chamberlain and Enei
Begaye Peter
Metal Road follows three Navajo rail-
roaders from the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang
as they leave their homeland to replace
aging railroad tracks from the Missis-
sippi River to the Pacific Ocean under
extreme weather conditions (distributed
by NETA).
Metal Road Producers: Sarah Del
Seronde and Leighton C. Peterson, Ph.D.
On A Knife Edge provides a privi-
leged view into the interior world of
George Dull Knife as he becomes politi-
cally active with the American Indian
Movement, confronts the challenges of
growing up on the Pine Ridge Reserva-
tion and wrestles with accepting leader-
ship of his storied family from his aging
father. Set against a background of rising
tension and protest, a Lakota teenager
learns firsthand what it means to lead a
new generation and enter adulthood in a
world where the odds are stacked against
him (distributed by WORLD™).
On a Knife Edge Producer: Eli Cane
About Vision Maker Media
Vision Maker Media is your premier
source for quality American Indian and
Alaska Native educational and home videos.
All aspects of our programs encour-
age the involvement of young people to
learn more about careers in the media –
to be the next generation of storytellers.
Vision Maker Media envisions a world
changed and healed by understanding
Native stories and the public conversations
they generate.
November 2017
Vision Maker Media, a nonprofit
501(c)(3), empowers and engages Native
people to tell stories. For more informa-
tion, visit visionmakermedia.org.
With funding from the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Vision
Maker Media’s Public Media Content
Fund awards support to projects with an
American Indian theme and significant
Native involvement that ultimately ben-
efits the entire public media community.
About NETA
The National Educational Telecom-
munications Association is a professional
association that serves public television
licensees and educational entities in all
50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and
Puerto Rico.
Since 1967, our reason for existing
is to connect public television people
and ideas by providing quality program-
ming, educational resources, professional
development, management support and
national representation.
For more information, visit neta-
online.org.
About WORLD ™
WORLD is a 24/7, full-service mul-
ticast channel featuring public television’s
signature nonfiction documentary, science
and news programming complemented by
original content from emerging produc-
ers. Launched in August 2007, WORLD
is produced and distributed by WGBH/
Boston, American Public Television
(APT) and WNET/New York in asso-
ciation with Public Broadcasting Service
(PBS) and the National Educational Tele-
communications Association (NETA).
Programs for WORLD include the
exclusive 52-week documentary series
America ReFramed.
UO offers in-state
tuition to Siletz Tribal
students regardless
of state of residency
The University of Oregon offers
in-state tuition benefits to enrolled
Siletz Tribal members regardless of
their current state of residency.
The Residency by Aboriginal
Right Program was first offered in
2001 to 44 Tribes that have aboriginal
territories within the state of Oregon
that pre-date 1850. Out-of-state
students will pay in-state tuition, a
$20,000 savings each academic year.
“All high school graduates should go
to college. It’s not a choice. It’s a require-
ment. Our ancestors sacrificed and sur-
vived so that we would have the choices
we have today,” said Jason Younker, UO
assistant vice president, advisor to
the president for government-to-
government relations and a member of
the Coquille Indian Tribe. “We should
honor their sacrifices.”
UO offers bachelor’s and gradu-
ate degrees in 272 academic programs
and is one of only 36 public universi-
ties committed to scientific explora-
tion and interdisciplinary research.
The Many Nations Longhouse
opened in 2005 and is home for the
Native American Student Association,
the Native American Law Students
Association and the American Indian
Science and Engineering Society.
For more information about UO,
visit uoregon.edu.