The office of the President along with Vice President, William Wilkinson, and I have just returned from attending tribal college week in Washington D.C. We spent the week advocating for Haskell Indian Nation University along with the other 37 TCUs. Throughout the week we met with congressional leaders and discussedContinue Reading
Love has taken me 5,054 and more miles across the world, from Anchorage Alaska to Novi Sad Serbia, to Hungary, Austria, and the Czech Republic. It all started the summer of 2017, I came back to Anchorage for summer break from Haskell and returned to my job at a touristContinue Reading
Welcome back students! It is my great pleasure to welcome everyone back to Haskell as we all continue our journeys. As I begin my last semester here at Haskell I look back at my experience of Haskell. I remember my days as a rebellious freshman that challenged the boundaries, myContinue Reading
The night of October 31st has lost its meaning. Parties and drinking have taken the place of the metaphysical event that is Samhain. All Hallows is the one night of the year that the veil that separates the world of the living and the realm of the dead is mostContinue Reading
Rashad Squalls Students who choose to party are more vulnerable to alcohol and substance abuse. Here at Haskell Indian Nations University many of us come from cities, reservations, and rural areas all with the purpose of continuing our education. Some students are straight out of high school, others decide toContinue Reading
By Marcus Ruff Photo Credit: Ryan Vizzions As the world stood in awe at the movement unfolding on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation- the images of armored vehicles, sonic weapons, automatic rifles, and attack dogs- some began to wonder: when did law enforcement begin to resemble the U.S. military? From FergusonContinue Reading
I am Lindsey Beth Robinson, a member of the Wah-Zha-Zhi (Osage) Nations, a sister, a colleague, and a leader for change. I was born and raised in Denver Colorado and moved to Kansas my senior year of high school. I graduated from Blue Valley North High School in 2015 andContinue Reading
By Sean Parrish Traveling 85 blocks by subway from Harlem to Manhattan was my weekday schedule for two months while I lived in the city that never sleeps; New York City. I was offered an opportunity that I could not turn down. I, along with 18 other young driven individualsContinue Reading
By Amanda Smith As a small campus, students are not aware or told what could happen in case of emergencies, the only safety tips they are taught are fire drills and lock downs. With Haskell being an open-campus, anyone can access the grounds, which not many of the students know.Continue Reading
by Joseph Singh Calling Indigenous people “Indian” is like calling Europeans “Japanese”. The label is erroneous and condescending. The origin of the slur comes from Christopher Columbus who mistook the American continent for India. He then labeled the inhabitants “Indians”. Perhaps it was because of the pigmentation of the Natives.Continue Reading