Red Shirt Table: Northern Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

 

 

Creighton University
LAKOTA IMMERSION - MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

 

The Lakota immersion - mentorship program for Creighton University administration, faculty and staff includes working with Lakota high school students who are preparing for college, visiting historical and cultural sites on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations, and a dialogue with Lakota students currently enrolled at Creighton as well as with other Lakota living on the reservations.  We will work with students at Red Cloud High School, a Jesuit school on Pine Ridge.

Events:

Our events are designed to allow each mentor to get to know her/his protégés and to begin the very complicated and lengthy process of completing the Gates Millennium Scholarship application. The Gates Scholarship is an important opportunity for Native students on Pine Ridge and other Reservations and Native urban areas to have full access to higher education. This scholarship is open to other minority students as well. Working with school counselors faculty, mentors will encourage and accompany their protégés through this application process.

Requirements:
Staff employees who attend the immersion are required to use vacation days if they wish to be paid for those days away. Staff employees also may take unpaid leave to attend this program. Faculty may use their break period to attend the immersion. We realize this is yet another request for generosity and both appreciate those who are able to do this and also understand that family and other obligations might prevent others from attending. There is no charge for this event and all meals are paid.

 

Schedule:

September 1 , 2008

Make contact with your protégés by e-mail. Students are juniors at this point and have begun strategizing for the Gates Application.

September 22, 2008 (Monday)

Red Cloud Gates applicants visit Creighton University. Mentors meet with their Red Cloud protégés for a pre-dinner working session (3:30 PM to 5:00 PM) Administration 426 (The Social Science Data Lab), dinner at Ignatius House, and a post dinner work session on Monday, September 17, 2006.

October 19 - 22 , 2008 (Sunday-Wednesday)

Travel to Pine Ridge to work directly with your protégés and in turn to learn about the history and culture of the people of the Pine Ridge Reservation.

19 October, Sunday
8:00 am (Central Time) Depart Deglman Circle, Creighton University 

12:30 pm (Central Time) Lunch at the Yankton Dakota Casino

1:00 pm (Central Time) visit Lake Francis Case - Group Photo
5:00 pm Dine at Big Bat's, Pine Ridge SD 
6:30 pm (Mountain Time) Arrival at Red Cloud/Holy Rosary Mission

20 October, Monday
7:30 am Breakfast in Dining Room, Serena Hall – Lower Elementary Students present
8:30 am - 10:00 pm Work begins with Red Cloud High School protégés High School Computer Lab

10:00 am - 10:15 am Break

10:15 am - 12:00 pm Work continues with Red Cloud High School protégés High School Computer
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Lunch - Serenna Hall
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm Work continues with Red Cloud High School Protégés in the High School Computer Lab
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm Break
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Work continues with Red Cloud High School Protégés in the High School Computer Lab
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Tour of Tour of Red Cloud Schools and Heritage Center (17 Creighton Students Join us)
6:00 pm Dinner Red Cloud High School counselors, Gates scholarship applicants and parents/guardians

21 October, Tuesday
7:30 am Breakfast in Dining Room, Serena Hall

10:00 Tour of Reservation and Lourdes Elementary School

12:00 Lunch at Lourdes

2:30 pm Return to Holy Rosary
3:30 pm Tour of Merriville Buffalo Pasture
6:00 pm Dinner in Faculty Dining Room, Serena Hall

6:30 pm optional activities: A) Girls' Volleyball Game at Pine Ridge High School, B) Visit with Norma Tibbits, Education Program Administrator for the BIA, C) Rest!

22 October, Wednesday
7:30 am (Mountain Time) Departure of the Creighton University team
10:00 am (Central Time) Tour Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum and St. Francis Mission, Rosebud Reservation
11:00 am (Central Time) Return to Creighton via a scenic Nebraska Route
5:00 pm Arrive Deglman Circle, Creighton University

October 22, 2008 -- December 15, 2008
Keep in touch with your protégés, encouraging them to complete the applications. We will also blind edit all the completed student essays as a group (dates to be announced-- there will be some flexibility with turn-around).

Goals of Immersion - Mentorship Program :

 

·       Familiarize faculty and staff with the cultural context of many of Creighton’s Native students

 

·       Provide an opportunity for inter-cultural dialogue and learning

 

·       Contribute to the strength of the Lakota community by mentoring some of their students applying to college and for the Gates Scholarship

PARTICIPANT RECOMMENDATIONS
If you would like to consult someone who participated in the 2007 program feel free to contact any of the following:

James T Ault ( jt3@creighton.edu)
Ray Bucko, S.J. (bucko@creighton.edu)
Andy Jaspers, S.J. (jaspers@creighton.edu)
Maorong Jiang (maj87215@creighton.edu)
Jay Leighter (leighter@creighton.edu)
Micky Mallenby (mlm40711@creighton.edu)
Phil Meeks (PhilipMeeks@creighton.edu)
Ekaterina Thomas (aikaterinathomas@hotmail.com)
Mary Ann Vinton (vinton@creighton.edu )
Jinmei Yuan (jinmei@creighton.edu)

If you would like to consult someone who participated in the 2006 program feel free to contact any of the following:
James T Ault (jt3@creighton.edu)
Ray Bucko, S.J. (bucko@creighton.edu)
Tami Buffalohead-McGill (tamib@creighton.edu)
Sandi Cihal (sac85152@creighton.edu)
Lori Hatcher (lhatcher@pathology.creighton.edu)
Rose Hill (rmhill@creighton.edu)
Kathleen Rettig (rettig@creighton.edu)
Joleen Richwine (jgr73593@creighton.edu)
Jon Schrage (schragej@gmail.com)
Katie Thomas (aikaterinathomas@hotmail.com)
Omar Valentine (nvalentine@creighton.edu
Carol Zuegner (mcz78332@creighton.edu)

If you would like to consult someone who participated in the 2005 program feel free to contact any of the following:

James Ault (jt3@creighton.edu)
Ray Bucko, S.J. (bucko@creighton.edu)

Tami Buffalohead-McGill (tamib@creighton.edu)

Jerry Clark (jclark@creighton.edu)
Rick McAuliffe(rjm02954@creighton.edu)
Carol McCabe (cmccabe@creighton.edu)
Gary Michels (gmchls@creighton.edu)
Michelle Milard (mlm90831@creighton.edu)
Michele Starzyk (mks00575@creighton.edu)
Mary Helen Stefaniak (mhs@creighton.edu)
N Omar Valentine (nvalentine@creighton.edu)

 

 

2007 Participants in the Bandlands and our Guide Lyn-- Warmer than 2006!

2006 Participants in front of Holy Rosary Church -- Go Snow!

2005 Particpants at the Radio Station and some of our teachers including two Lakota Creighton Freshmen!

 

 

2004 Particpants before our early monring departure from Creighton!

If you would like to consult someone who participated in the 2004 program feel free to contact any of the following:

Kristina DeNeve (kdeneve@creighton.edu)

Tracy Leavelle (tracy.leavelle@creighton.edu)

Tom Purcell (tpurcell@creighton.edu)

Rick Witmer(witmer@creighton.edu)

Amy Treonis (atreonis@creighton.edu)

John Thein (jthein@creighton.edu)

Ray Bucko, S.J. (bucko@creighton.edu)

Tami Buffalohead-McGill (tamib@creighton.edu)

Gary Michels (gmchls@creighton.edu)

Marlene Wilken (mwi20590@creighton.edu)

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This page is managed by Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J. of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Creighton University. E-Mail: bucko@creighton.edu Page Last Updated: May 7, 2008

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