Scholarship a memorial to Jumping Bull (fwd)

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Scholarship a memorial to Jumping Bull
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/08/28/news/local/news09.txt

KYLE — Oglala Lakota College has established a new scholarship as a
memorial to a great-grandson of Hunkpapa leader Sitting Bull who was a
Lakota Studies Department instructor for 24 years.

OLC officials have set an $80,000 goal and started fund-raising
activities to establish the Calvin Jumping Bull Scholarship. The South
Dakota Community Foundation will provide a matching grant of $20,000
when OLC meets its goal.

Jumping Bull, who died at age 75 on July 1, was a major force in working
to keep the Lakota language alive and to strengthen the culture for
generations. He believed that by keeping the songs alive, the Lakota
would also preserve the language, said OLC president Thomas Shortbull
in a news release.

When few Indian people went to college in the 1950s, Jumping Bull blazed
a trail to higher education, Shortbull said.

"Calvin was a warrior who went to college so that his education would
benefit the Lakota people," he said in the release.

Jumping Bull attended Bureau of Indian Affairs schools on the
reservation during his early years. He received a bachelor's degree in
art education at Dakota Wesleyan University and a master's degree at
Black Hills State University. He worked as principal at Red Cloud
Indian School for eight years. He helped Loneman School in Oglala
become the first tribally contracted school and worked to establish
Oglala Lakota College. Jumping Bull then joined the faculty at OLC,
teaching in the Lakota Studies Department.

Throughout his career, Jumping Bull worked for more Indian control of
the schools and educational institutions. He tirelessly advocated for
more Indian teachers, staff and administrators. Indian students had the
opportunity to get their education on the reservation, and Jumping Bull
wanted it grounded in Lakota culture.

In 2001, Jumping Bull received the Northern Plains Tribal Art Show
Living Treasure Award.

In 2004, he was inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in
Cheyenne, Wyo., where he led a Lakota dance troupe from 1969 to 1979.

Those wishing to contribute to the scholarship can send donations to
Thomas Shortbull, OLC president, P.O. Box 490, Kyle, SD 57752; can call
Shortbull at 455-6020 or Marilyn Pourier, OLC development director, at
455-6045.

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