Distribution of interest earned in 2023 from the 1994 endowment fund to the individual 1994 institutions

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $124,624.57 Formula Grant to Chief Dull Knife College, a tribal college located on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana. This grant is part of the Tribal Colleges Endowment Program (CFDA 10.222), which aims to enhance educational opportunities at designated Land Grant Institutions serving Native American communities. The funding will support the college's efforts to strengthen its teaching programs in food and agricultural sciences, including curriculum development, faculty preparation, and instructional delivery systems tailored to Indigenous educational needs. This annual formula grant, distributed in September 2024, is part of a consistent pattern of federal funding to tribal colleges and universities under the Tribal Colleges Endowment Program.

Title v part c of the improving americas schools act of 1994 public law 103-382 (october 20 1994) cited as equity in educational land-grant status act of 1994 provides that certain tribal colleges designated as 1994 institutions receive various benefits. These include contributions by the federal government to an endowment fund the interest income from which is distributed to the 1994 institutions.