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Articles written by Cheryl Crazy Bull


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  • College Fund Statement on Student Loan Forgiveness

    Cheryl Crazy Bull, American Indian College Fund|Aug 25, 2022

    The College Fund is pleased that President Biden has announced a package of debt relief for current college students and graduates. Students who receive or received Pell grants are eligible for $20,000 in debt relief, while others who earn less than $125,000 a year or are in households with a combined income of less than $250,000 are eligible for $10,000 in debt relief. Affordable access to higher education for Indigenous students was lacking up until the 1960s and creating those pathways to higher education was the intention of the founders...

  • Cheryl Crazy Bull, President and CEO of the American Indian College Fund, has issued a statement about We Will Not Be Erased

    Cheryl Crazy Bull, American Indian College Fund|Apr 29, 2021

    When Rick Santorum, a former GOP Congressman from Pennsylvania, and a senior political commentator with CNN, asserted that the founders of the United States “birthed a nation from nothing,” he added to our nation’s false and shameful legacy of erasure of Native people. I come from a big family with many children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews, and in-laws. Most of my family members are Indigenous—the descendants of the original inhabitants of this land now called the United States. We live every day of our lives...