Phenocia Bauerle, UC Berkeley director of Native American Student Development, is helping lead efforts to address growing cases of scholars claiming Indigenous roots without evidence. (Paul Kuroda / ...

Native Americans make up only 1 percent of college students in the U.S. and are often the first in their families to go to college. Naomi Lee was in that 1 percent. Accepted at several universities, ...

The Native Forward Scholars Fund recently received a $50 million unrestricted gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift is the largest donation to date to a Native American organization and ...

Native Forward Scholars Fund, the largest direct provider of scholarships to Native students in the U.S., has announced a landmark $50 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—her second major ...

The University of Wyoming will host the 2025 Native American Scholarship and Awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, at the Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center. This event will honor Native ...

For years, Maylei Blackwell has worked to lift up Indigenous and Chicana women’s voices as a UCLA professor who identified as a mixed-race person of Thai and Cherokee heritage. Her research was widely ...