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Marchers from Oglala Lakota College celebrating the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., September 21, 2004. Oglala Lakota College (OLC) is a public tribal land-grant community college in Kyle, South Dakota. It enrolls 1,456 students enrolled part- and full-time.
The four founders were Gerald One Feather of the Oglala Sioux Community College (now Oglala Lakota College), David Reisling of D–Q University, Pat Locke of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), and Helen Schierbeck of the United States Office of Education (USOE). [2]
Oglala Lakota College: Kyle: Public Tribal college: 1,177 1971 [17] HLC: Sinte Gleska University: Mission: Private not-for-profit Tribal college: 544 1970 [18] HLC: Sioux Falls Seminary: Sioux Falls: Private not-for-profit Special-focus institution: 1858 [19] HLC, ATSCA: Sisseton Wahpeton College: Agency Village: Public Tribal college: 187 1979 ...
A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the eighth-largest Native American reservation in the United States. The Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Lakota Nation. It was previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
However, some tribes have formally or informally adopted traditional names: the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is also known as the Sičháŋǧu Oyáte (Brulé Nation), and the Oglala often use the name Oglála Lakȟóta Oyáte, rather than the English "Oglala Sioux Tribe" or OST. (The alternate English spelling of Ogallala is deprecated, even though it ...
The stand-off ended, but Wilson remained in office. The U.S. government said it could not remove an elected tribal official as the Oglala Sioux Tribe had sovereignty. [24] Ensuing open conflict between factions caused numerous deaths. The murder rate between March 1, 1973, and March 1, 1976, was 170 per 100,000; it was the highest in the ...
Pine Ridge (Lakota: wazíbló [4]) is a census-designated place (CDP) and the most populous community in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 3,138 at the 2020 census. [5] It is the tribal headquarters of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. [6]
Alicia Mousseau is the Vice President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, whose lands include the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. [1] This is her second term in this position. She is reportedly the first lesbian to hold a position on her tribe's executive council.