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It wasn't until the television and newspaper cameras came out that Stephanie Whitecloud realized just how special she had become.

She thought she was just another honored Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (SIFC) graduate during its 24th annual convocation in May 2000.

Instead, Whitecloud learned for the first time that she was the first ever graduate from SIFC to earn a science degree.

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It wasn't until the television and newspaper cameras came out that Stephanie Whitecloud realized just how special she had become.

She thought she was just another honored Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (SIFC) graduate during its 24th annual convocation in May 2000.

Instead, Whitecloud learned for the first time that she was the first ever graduate from SIFC to earn a science degree.

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It wasn't until the television and newspaper cameras came out that Stephanie Whitecloud realized just how special she had become.

She thought she was just another honored Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (SIFC) graduate during its 24th annual convocation in May 2000.

Instead, Whitecloud learned for the first time that she was the first ever graduate from SIFC to earn a science degree.

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From her cramped office at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Kathleen Makela and her small staff generate some impressively large ideas on enhancing the university experience for the province's Aboriginal youth.

Makela, the director of the campus Aboriginal Students' Centre, herself Metis with degrees in Arts and Law, understands both the benefits and the difficulties that post-secondary education holds for Indigenous people.

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From her cramped office at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Kathleen Makela and her small staff generate some impressively large ideas on enhancing the university experience for the province's Aboriginal youth.

Makela, the director of the campus Aboriginal Students' Centre, herself Metis with degrees in Arts and Law, understands both the benefits and the difficulties that post-secondary education holds for Indigenous people.

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From her cramped office at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Kathleen Makela and her small staff generate some impressively large ideas on enhancing the university experience for the province's Aboriginal youth.

Makela, the director of the campus Aboriginal Students' Centre, herself Metis with degrees in Arts and Law, understands both the benefits and the difficulties that post-secondary education holds for Indigenous people.

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From her cramped office at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Kathleen Makela and her small staff generate some impressively large ideas on enhancing the university experience for the province's Aboriginal youth.

Makela, the director of the campus Aboriginal Students' Centre, herself Metis with degrees in Arts and Law, understands both the benefits and the difficulties that post-secondary education holds for Indigenous people.

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An American research project designed to keep Native students in school has been introduced to Red Crow College in Stand Off, Alta.

According to Family Education Model co-ordinator Iris HeavyRunner, the project is a joint effort in the United States between the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the University of Montana's Department of Social Work, and tribal colleges on the Blackfeet, Fort Peck, Flathead, and Rocky Boy's reservations in Montana. It is now being expanded into several other states, as well as to Alberta, she said.

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An American research project designed to keep Native students in school has been introduced to Red Crow College in Stand Off, Alta.

According to Family Education Model co-ordinator Iris HeavyRunner, the project is a joint effort in the United States between the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the University of Montana's Department of Social Work, and tribal colleges on the Blackfeet, Fort Peck, Flathead, and Rocky Boy's reservations in Montana. It is now being expanded into several other states, as well as to Alberta, she said.

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An American research project designed to keep Native students in school has been introduced to Red Crow College in Stand Off, Alta.

According to Family Education Model co-ordinator Iris HeavyRunner, the project is a joint effort in the United States between the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the University of Montana's Department of Social Work, and tribal colleges on the Blackfeet, Fort Peck, Flathead, and Rocky Boy's reservations in Montana. It is now being expanded into several other states, as well as to Alberta, she said.