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Bader Philanthropies Inc.<\/a>, one of southeastern Wisconsin\u2019s top five foundations, announced today it is providing a $3 million grant to the UWM Foundation for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u2019s Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education<\/a> (EQI).<\/p>\n

Eroded state budgets and depleted funding sources have reduced staffing and forced cuts to EQI\u2019s programs, threatening the ability of EQI to continue as a regional leader in Indigenous cultural education. The five-year grant of $3 million will help EQI continue to advance the research, culture and languages of Wisconsin\u2019s Indigenous people.<\/p>\n

This grant will strengthen EQI and provide for the hiring of additional Indigenous faculty researchers and instructors. Bader Philanthropies\u2019 gift will also provide for EQI programming, including visiting elders, fire circle events, community and international convocations for Indigenous peoples and allies, and scholarships. UWM will continue to seek additional philanthropic funds to build up EQI\u2019s endowment to sustain the institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Electa Quinney Institute offers UWM\u2019s Indigenous students, faculty, staff and friends a special space to learn about their heritage and create bonds with others in the Native American community,\u201d UWM Chancellor Mark Mone said. \u201cBader Philanthropies\u2019 gift to the institute comes at a crucial time. With this gift, we can expand the institute\u2019s impact in preserving and advancing Native languages, cultures and traditions while advancing a greater understanding among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people at UWM and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Gordon Altiman, a PhD student in urban education at UWM, is one student who has personally benefited from EQI. She is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and honors strong family ties at the Fond du Lac (Minnesota) Band of Ojibwe as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been allowed to really very specifically go into Indigenous issues in every course that I\u2019ve taken,\u201d Gordon Altiman said. \u201cHaving that extra support from EQI has been hugely important for me. There is a desire in our students not only to learn academically, but also to learn their culture when they have been detached for so long. Meeting that need is just as important as the academic part because of the sense of loss. EQI is fulfilling that need on top of the academic needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

This grant will allow EQI to continue to be a model for other institutes of higher education in terms of providing unique physical spaces, such as the fire circle located in front of Merrill Hall, and resources to support the revitalization of regional languages, including Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee and Ho-Chunk.<\/p>\n

UWM recently hired Mark Freeland<\/a> as the director of the Electa Quinney Institute and associate professor of anthropology to continue to lead EQI\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

“Higher education has not been a welcoming place for Indigenous students. By recognizing Indigenous languages, culture and knowledge as coequal systems of thought, UWM has provided a place for Indigenous peoples to reintegrate their cultural learning into their degree programs,” Freeland said. “EQI helps to support Indigenous students, teachers, and administrators to successfully complete their academic programs and prepares them for their chosen fields. In that way we are able to inform a much larger audience on Indigenous knowledge.”<\/p>\n

Freeland is Bear Clan and a member of the Bahweting community in Northern Michigan (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Chippewa). He most recently was at South Dakota State University where he was the co-coordinator of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, which provided the academic component for the Wokini Initiative, a program to redistribute land grant funding to support Indigenous students. His research critically identifies the role of Indigenous worldview as an integral component of cultural and linguistic translations.<\/p>\n

Freeland builds upon the work of Margaret Noodin, who had served as EQI\u2019s director since 2014 and is now associate dean for humanities and professor of English in UWM\u2019s College of Letters & Science. She will continue to teach Indigenous languages for the institute.<\/p>\n

Bader Philanthropies is one of UWM\u2019s largest donors, and this is the second largest gift Bader Philanthropies has given UWM. Both Bader Philanthropies and Dr. Isabel Bader have supported EQI, providing resources to preserve Indigenous culture in Milwaukee and beyond. Dr. Isabel Bader has long been an ally of First Nations (a term used to describe most Indigenous people in Canada).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Electa Quinney Institute\u2019s academic program and on campus activities will transform lives \u2013 today and decades to come,\u201d said Daniel J. Bader, president\/CEO of Bader Philanthropies. \u201cUWM\u2019s steadfast commitment and leadership in preserving Native languages, cultures and traditions is a significant step forward in helping our community reconcile the shortcomings of the past and creates spaces for healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over several decades, Bader Philanthropies has given UWM a total of more than $20 million in support of a variety of programs across the university. These areas of support include, among many others, the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, Helen Bader Endowed Chair in Applied Gerontology, Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management, Helen Bader Concert Hall within the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Sullivan-Spaights Scholarships for Milwaukee Public Schools students with financial need, Arts at Home for isolated seniors, and College for Kids summer camp scholarships for low-income Milwaukee children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bader Philanthropies Inc., one of southeastern Wisconsin\u2019s top five foundations, announced today it is providing a $3 million grant to the UWM Foundation for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee\u2019s Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education (EQI). 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