‘Our Doors Would Have to Close’: Trump’s Proposed Cuts Threaten Tribal Colleges

‘Our doors would have to close’: Trump’s proposed cuts threaten tribal colleges

Tribal college leaders in Montana say the proposed funding cuts violate treaty responsibilities and would devastate tribal communities while harming the state’s economy.

Trump Seeks to Defund Institute of American Indian Arts

The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), the only four-year school devoted to contemporary Indigenous arts, could lose all of its federal funding beginning October 1 if President Trump’s proposed federal budget is passed. Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal suggests completely eliminating funding for the IAIA, which received approximately $13 million in the prior two fiscal years. The institution relies on federal funding for 75% of it…

Budget cuts of 90% could force tribal colleges to close, leave K-12 schools in disrepair

The federal agency in charge of tribal education has deep funding cuts that advocates say would mean death for colleges.

Montana budget includes new investments in tribal colleges, repatriation

Money that will help fund priorities set by the Legislature’s American Indian Caucus made it through the session that adjourned in April and survived the governor’s scrutiny.

Trump seeks to defund Institute of American Indian Arts

The only four-year college of its kind is on Trump's chopping block, along with countless other Indigenous causes