Regional
(2010-03-15)
DENVER, CO
(KUNC) -
The American Indian College Fund provides scholarships and other support for American Indian students - and supports the nation's 33 accredited tribal colleges and universities. President Obama is giving 125-thousand dollars of his 1.4 million dollar Nobel Prize money to the fund. CEO Richard Williams says the gift highlights the importance of The Fund, which he says is vital to the re-building of Indian nations.Williams says reservations that have a tribal college on it, show economic indicators that that reservation is improving, in addition to that, he says The Fund empowers American Indians to take care of their own higher education.
The Fund disburses more than 5-thousand scholarships to American Indian students each year. It was one of 10 organizations nationwide to receive a gift from the president.
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