{"id":32078,"date":"2018-04-23T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=32078"},"modified":"2018-04-23T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T15:52:26","slug":"bemidji-pioneer-a-record-class-at-bsu-banquet-honors-schools-largest-group-of-american-indian-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/23\/bemidji-pioneer-a-record-class-at-bsu-banquet-honors-schools-largest-group-of-american-indian-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Pioneer: A record class at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ: Banquet honors school\u2019s largest group of American Indian graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEMIDJI—A record number of American Indian students are set to graduate from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ this spring.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That was one of several highlights at Thursday night’s 38th annual American Indian Student Awards Recognition Banquet, where Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ staff recognized 51 American Indian soon-to-be graduates.<\/p>\n

“It’s a celebration, commencement-style, but with a cultural component to it,” said Bill Blackwell, Jr., who heads the school’s American Indian Resource Center. “That’s why I think a lot of our students really enjoy it.”<\/p>\n

The banquet featured an honor song, an invocation and a keynote address by Ursula Knoki-Wilson, a high-level administrator in the Indian Health Service.<\/p>\n

The 51 students recognized Thursday is the largest graduating class of American Indian students at the university, Blackwell told the Pioneer, adding that Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ has about the same number of American Indian graduates as other institutions where a greater percentage of the student body is American Indian. Last year, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ graduated 33 American Indian students, and the year before it graduated 43.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of banquet honorees:<\/p>\n

• Early Nyholm Culture and Language Award (for outstanding leadership in culture and language): Jon Daniel, who co-facilitates the resource center’s Ojibwe Language Table, is a McNair Scholar, and works at the Red Lake Immersion Headstart.<\/p>\n

• AIRC Community Leadership Award (for outstanding leadership in the community): Sage Miletich, a nursing major who represented the nursing program at the 66th Annual National Student Nurses Association Convention representing Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Miletich is a McNair Scholar, Student Nursing Association, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Scholar.<\/p>\n

• Roger Aitken Leadership Award (for outstanding leadership on campus): Sterling Knox. Sterling is a AIRC front desk worker, McNair Scholar, sits on The President’s student council, and helps out students in a variety of ways behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

• Outstanding American Indian Student of the Year: Madeline Treuer, a McNair Scholar and last year’s Outstanding American Indian Student of the Year; a Peer Advisor who co-facilitates the Ojibwe Language Table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEMIDJI—A record number of American Indian students are set to graduate from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ this spring. That was one of several highlights at Thursday night’s 38th annual American Indian Student Awards Recognition Banquet, where Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ staff recognized 51 American Indian soon-to-be graduates. “It’s a celebration, commencement-style, but with a cultural component to it,” said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32079,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32078\/revisions\/32079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}