{"id":4016,"date":"2023-11-03T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:54:05","slug":"hundreds-attend-tribal-fest-at-ssc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/hundreds-attend-tribal-fest-at-ssc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Attend Tribal Fest at SSC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured is an ariel view of SSC students, community members, and hundreds of fifth through twelfth grade students from Butner, Justice, New Lima, Varnum and Seminole in attendance at Tribal Fest.\" class=\"wp-image-4017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest-788x563.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Tribal-Fest.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seminole State College hosted Tribal Fest on Nov. 1. The event was organized and sponsored by the College\u2019s federal grant programs: Student Support Services\/SSS STEM, Talent Search, GEAR UP, NASNTI and Upward Bound. SSC students, community members, and hundreds of fifth through twelfth grade students from Butner, Justice, New Lima, Varnum and Seminole were in attendance. In the Cook Commons, several tribes had booths set up, providing information on education, career, housing, nutrition, graduation regalia and more. The Citizen Potawatomi, Choctaw, Sac and Fox, Muscogee, Chickasaw, Seminole, Absentee Shawnee and Cherokee Nations were all represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured, SSC Alumnus and Mr. Indigenous OU Asa Samuels performs fancy dancing.\" class=\"wp-image-4018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing-788x563.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Fancy-Dancing.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SSC Alumnus and Mr. Indigenous OU Asa Samuels performed fancy dancing throughout the morning at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"Pictured is Sicangu Lakota rapper Frank Waln performing in the Jeff Johnston Auditorium.\" class=\"wp-image-4020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1-50x36.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1-788x563.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Frank-Waln-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sicangu Lakota rapper Frank Waln performed in the Jeff Johnston Auditorium. Waln has won three Native American Music Awards. In addition to his musical performance, Waln spoke to students about the value of higher education and his personal journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminole State College hosted Tribal Fest on Nov. 1. The event was organized and sponsored by the College\u2019s federal grant programs: Student Support Services\/SSS STEM, Talent Search, GEAR UP, NASNTI and Upward Bound. SSC students, community members, and hundreds of fifth through twelfth grade students from Butner, Justice, New Lima, Varnum and Seminole were in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/hundreds-attend-tribal-fest-at-ssc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hundreds Attend Tribal Fest at SSC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37,87],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-events","category-grant-programs","category-news","tag-november-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}