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Moccasin Making at the NACC
Activities and Programming
Stanford Native Immersion Program
Each year in late summer, our community hosts the Stanford
Native Immersion Program for new freshmen and transfer students. SNIP is designed to help our
new undergraduates make new friends and ease the cultural transition to life at Stanford. SNIP
is typically scheduled during the middle of August.
Pre-Orientation Retreat
Designed for incoming Native American undergraduate students,
this two-day trip to the beach helps to demystify the Stanford experience. Returning students,
faculty, staff and alumni welcome the newest students and serve as resources to explain the
admission, advising, financial aid and other processes. The retreat is held preceding New
Student Orientation (September).
Native American Orientation
Coordinated by the Native American
Orientation Committee (NAOC), our orientation program includes a variety of workshops and social
gatherings to introduce the new undergraduates to the Native American community and Stanford.
Included in the NAOC activities are an Open House at the Native American Cultural Center, an evening
gathering with on-campus Native Student organizations and a community-wide barbecue for new and
returning students, faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends.
Partners for Academic Excellence
Freshmen are invited to be PAE Fellows and participate in
small study groups led by graduate and undergraduate student mentors. Partners for Academic Excellence helps students develop strong class cohesion,
challenges students to pursue relationships with faculty, and motivates students through an intimate
and affirming academic experience.
NACC Speaker Series
The Native American Cultural Center hosts a variety of speakers each
quarter. Topics may range from freshman to graduate student to staff to alumni issues--but
everyone is welcome!
Monthly Potluck Dinner Gatherings
Students, faculty, staff, family and friends gather at the
Native American Cultural Center or Muwekma-Tah-Ruk nearly every month to share a meal, good times,
and conversation. Occasionally with a special theme--like "SPAM-O-Rama" or "Food of
Color"--potluck dinners bring us together, often with guests from the larger Bay Area Native
community.
Alumni Homecoming Reunion
Every fall, the Stanford Alumni Association hosts an amazing
weekend of activities for former students returning to "The Farm" for their class reunions.
Featured during Homecoming every year are gatherings of special communities or academic areas and
inductions into the Alumni Hall of Fame. In October 2009, the Native American Community
celebrated the 39th Anniversary of the Stanford American Indian Organization.
Native American Awareness Programming
Each quarter, in November, February and May, Native
American programming is spotlighted on the Stanford campus. Fall quarter programming
includes Indigenous People's Day, a trip to the annual American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco
and a Thanksgiving Day Dinner. Winter quarter focuses on mentoring within the Native American
Community and features visiting artists and scholars, the Stanford AISES sponsored college motivation
day as well as the annual Student Mentor Dinner. Native American Awareness in Spring quarter
culminates with the Stanford Powwow.
John Milton Oskison Writing Competition
This annual competition is named for the first Native
American graduate of Stanford University, former president of the Stanford Literary Society, editor
at Collier's magazine and member of the Society of American Indians who wrote on American Indian
issues. Four student papers (two undergraduate and two graduate) are spotlighted each
year. The research topics vary across academic disciplines but contain a substantial emphasis
on issues or subjects impacting the Native American Community.
Student Mentor Dinner
The Stanford American Indian Organization and the American Indian,
Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Program host a buffet dinner featuring Native foods so that
students and their guest faculty, staff, alumni and student mentors can get to know each other away
from the classroom. The John Milton Oskison Writing Competition and Anne Ninham Medicine
Mentorship Award recipients are announced at this event.
Graduate Diversity Admit Weekend
The Schools of Earth Science, Education, Engineering and
Humanities and Sciences--in collaboration with the Native American Cultural Center and others--host
admitted graduate students for a weekend of events designed to encourage them to study at
Stanford.
Stanford Admit Weekend
Admitted undergraduate students will be invited to Stanford each
April. Hosted by current students, the prospective freshmen are encouraged to accept Stanford's
offers of admission.
Native American Research Forum
The annual Research Forum provided an opportunity for
undergraduate and graduate students from Stanford and other local colleges and universities to
present their research and discuss new currents in Native scholarship. Research topics varied
widely and focused on issues of importance to tribes and American Indian, Alaska Native and Native
Hawaiian communities. Instead of an all day event, the forum was reshaped into a regular
speaker series or a publication in 2003-04.
Native American Community Awards and Classes Dinner
The Native Community and several student
organizations acknowledge their graduating members, organizational officers, and scholarship
recipients at this annual awards banquet. Individual scholarship and community service are also
celebrated.
Native American Graduation Dinner and Awards Presentation
An honoring of students receiving
undergraduate or graduate degrees and their families, the graduation awards dinner is held each year
on the night before Commencement. The Stanford Native American community shows its appreciation
for our graduating students and their accomplishments by presenting each of them with a Pendleton
blanket.
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Summer Native Immersion Program 2009 participants and leaders
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