Wokini Initiative
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Collaborative and Holistic Support
The Wokini Initiative is SDSU’s collaborative and holistic framework to support American Indian student success and Indigenous nation-building. Ongoing collaboration between key campus and tribal stakeholders is central to the Wokini framework.
The Initiative builds upon SDSU’s current tribal partnerships and American Indian Student Center services to:
- Enhance cultural programming and support for American Indian students.
- Offer Wokini scholarships for students are tribally enrolled through a federally recognized tribe in the United States including Alaskan Natives.
- Enhance research and outreach partnerships with tribes, tribal colleges and other tribal organizations.
Collaborative Partners
- American Indian students, families and elders
- American Indian Student Center
- American Indian studies
- Academic Affairs
- Student Affairs
- Fundraising and student scholarships
- Research and scholarship
- Tribal colleges and universities
- Tribal outreach and partnership
- President’s Wokini Advisory Council
This program does a good job of preparing students for the next level and I am ambitiously ready to go out there and make a change in architecture. If you shoot for the stars, you can get to the stars.
Tylan Bear,
Sicangu Lakota and Sac and Fox Meskwaki
Welcome
American Indian Student Center
The American Indian Student Center is committed to providing a welcome home-place to support those who have courageously chosen to walk the path of higher education. The American Indian Student Center understands that a vital part of our function involves nation-building and works to encourage students to recognize and develop their voice and help prepare Native students to respond to the call to return home.
Programs
On-campus programming
- Support programs and expanded network structured to prepare, attract, enroll, retain and graduate enrolled tribal members at SDSU.
- Scholarships for American Indian students.
- American Indian Student Center.
- Preservation of language and art, two critically important aspects of the Lakota and ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ cultures.
Off-campus Wokini Programming
- Collaborative research projects focused on needs of native communities.
- Adult leadership development programs designed around the structure and function of tribal governments to improve economic development within tribal communities.
Contact us
Wokini Initiative
Physical Address
1015 Campanile Ave.
Brookings, SD 57007
Mailing Address
SAD 119, Box 2201
Brookings, SD 57007
Hours
Mon - Fri: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
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