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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
May 10, 2017
U of O: effort to recruit Native students
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About 150 University of
Oregon students identify as
Native American.
A survey last year found
that about half of those are
enrolled in federally recog-
nized tribes.
“Historically, people liter-
ally moved us out of the way,
so we come from communi-
ties and reservations that
have very few opportunities
to access higher education,”
said Jason Younker, an asso-
ciate vice president and ad-
viser to the president on sov-
ereignty and government-to-
government
relations.
Younker is a member of the
Coquille Nation.
“When students get to uni-
AARP driving
course in W.S.
An AARP Smart Driver
Course of drivers 50 and
older who want to refresh
their driving skills will be held
in Warm Springs on Thurs-
day, May 18.
The course will be from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Family
Resource Center.
The registration cost is be-
ing covered for Warm Springs
residents and tribal members
by the Warm Springs Health
and Human Services Branch.
To sign up, call the library
at 541-553-1078.
Successful completion
may qualify the person for a
discount on insurance.
versities, they are usually the
only one from their commu-
nity. They find that there are
very few Natives on cam-
pus.”
The University of Or-
egon began collaborating
with Oregon’s tribes two de-
cades ago to make the cam-
pus a place where Native
students succeed.
In 1998, university lead-
ers created the “residency by
Aboriginal rights program,”
granting in-state tuition to
members of all tribes with
historic relationships to the
territory that was Oregon,
regardless of where they live
now.
The school began flying
the flags of Oregon’s nine
tribes outside the student
union. As of 2014, students
can minor in Native Ameri-
can studies.
And in 2005, the tribes
helped create and pay for
the
Many
Nations
Longhouse, a community
center traditional to some
Oregon tribes. Students
from different tribes meet
there regularly to study or
eat potluck dinners, Younker
said.
The Native residential
community will open this fall
in a new dorm next to the
longhouse. Native American
students and anyone focus-
ing on indigenous studies
can live in the community.
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