USD Native American Alumni

Congrats to Judge Sherman Marshall (USD 1984) for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National American Indian Court Judges Association.

Alumnus Sherman Marshall Receives NAICJA Lifetime Achievement Award University of South Dakota alumnus Sherman Marshall ’84 was awarded the National American Indian Court Judges Association (NAICJA) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Here is a great opportunity to nominate Native alumni!
Open until July 15✅

Congrats to Myah Red Horse (USD '21) on being selected as one of 18 fellows for the 2022 Warren Fellowship! She is currently a graduate student in the USD School of Education. Way to go Myah!

www.usd.edu Humanities And Culture USD Graduate Student Selected to Attend 2022 Warren Fellowship in Houston Myah Red Horse, a graduate student in the University of South Dakota School of Education, was recently selected to be a fellow of the 2022 Warren Fellowship, hosted by the Holocaust Museum Houston, from....

We had more than 250 alumni, friends, and current students attend the 10th Annual Alumni Dinner on Friday, April 1st. It was a great night with food from Heck's Dakota Style BBQ and a keynote address from Cheryl Crazy Bull (USD ‘79), the President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund. Thanks to everyone who came!

Attention Sungmanitu Oyate! Join us in the MUC Ballroom as we join together in community for the first time since 2019!
We are honored to welcome Alumna Cheryl Crazy Bull(Sicangu Lakota, Class of '79) back to Sungmanitu Makoche for the 10th Annual Native Alumni Dinner Keynote! We are glad to continue this annual dinner that began in 2010 and to see how it's grown over the years.
To make your reservation, RSVP at [email protected].

In continuing the USD Native Student Weekend, join us for the 48th Annual Tiospaye Wacipi at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center!

Make those hotel reservations & we will see you in 6 days!

Any sugmanitu oyate alum in the area? Support our current students with their Indian Taco Sale!

USD Tiospaye Student Council Indian Taco Sales Today! Come out and support one of our student organizations! They accept cash and venmo and on orders over 5 you can get it delivered by one of the students!

Congratulations to Clay Colombe on his appointment as CEO at REDCO!

Clay Colombe begins CEO position with Rosebud Economic Development Corporation In one sense, Clay Colombe's path to the position of CEO of the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation began about five years ago. But in some ways he'd been winding his

Tanyan yahí (welcome) Jazzy to the USD Native alum tiospaye! Best wishes to you on your next step on your journey! 🎓🔴⚫️⚪️🐾🐺

Congratulations to Jazzy Wendt who graduated December 2021! We are so proud of you and all of your accomplishments.

Jazzy is a mother of 2 who's daughter Nikki has struggled with her health since birth and has had 16 procedures. She has given Jazzy a passion for Healthcare. Jazzy will be working in the PACU area at Black Hills Surgical Hospital and plans to go back to school to become a CRNA in the future!

If you or anybody you know graduated this past December, let us know. We'd love to share their accomplishments too.

3 days left until we gather at LNI!
Don't forget to register at the QR code below!⬇⬇

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Help us connect USD Native Alumni as we share opportunities to be connected to each other and the place you once called home.

Congrats to Jourdan Bennett-Begaye for being selected as the new chief news executive for Indian Country Today! Jourdan attended American Indian Journalism Institute at USD.

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/exciting-time-as-new-editor-to-lead-ict?fbclid=IwAR2Y4uQLQPlFSTIXbL4olNv6yyQb-wdh8UnaGzQYvlVFHIiZDKCIYHmeTro

‘Exciting time’ as new editor to lead ICT Jourdan Bennett-Begaye is building the newsroom of the future