Program helps Blackfeet earn Ph.D.s

August 3, 2008

Iris Pretty Paint, a sociologist, spent the last 10 years researching and developing a theory on educational persistence as part of her doctoral program. She was driven to find answers about why people don’t give up when faced with challenges.

Pretty Paint has been using her research knowledge with members of the Blackfoot Project http://pace.dbs.umt.edu/PacePages/Newsletter%20Spring%202008.pdf , a program she’s coordinating to help fellow tribal members earn their doctoral degrees. It is the only known project of its type in the country, a collaboration that allows group members to work together and provide a direct benefit to the Blackfeet Nation by uniting traditional knowledge with Western science.

By JODI RAVE, Missoulian

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