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
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.
