Additional Resources
There are a number ofprograms at 鶹Ѱthat support and create community for Nativestudents.
-The 鶹ѰLEAD Alliance is a unique set of academic learning communities whose students, faculty and staff are united to promote inclusive excellence. These “academic neighborhoods” build camaraderie and promote student success during the first-year and throughout students’ four years through a rich array of: 1) cohort experiences, 2) participation scholarships, 3) academic enrichment activities, and 4) community-building activities.
-Each year UROP funds hundreds of students who produce new knowledge and creative work in partnership with CU's world-class faculty. We servestudents andfaculty whoselearning and teaching goals include outside-the-classroom enrichment. If you'd like to find out how to get paid for doing research at CU, see their website.
- (a short, illustrated booklet) shares advice from activists with the movement against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline on how new activists can show up in a good way to an Indigenous-led movement.
The Zine is free — please feel free to share, print, and distribute, and consider donating to an Indigenous-led climate justice nonprofit or movement. Brigid Mark and Timothy Cominghay compiled the information in the Zine, andartist created the illustrations. Many other activists contributed to and provided feedback on the Zine.
Access the Zine .
- Brigid Mark is a fifth year Sociology Ph.D. student interested in ecological health, Native political issues, and qualitative methodologies. From youth activism at UN Climate Conferences, to living in resistance camps of the Indigenous-led movement against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, she engages qualitative methods to study the root causes of environmental and social injustices, and the social movements working towards a better future. She prioritizes creating ethical relationships and collaborating with community members and activists.
