The Crazy Horse Memorial Journalism Scholarship is funded by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation. Crazy Horse Memorial is the site for the annual Native American Newspaper Career Conference.

The scholarship is given to a Native Amercain student(s) attending or planning to attend a college to pursue a journalism career. $2,000 in scholarship money is given each year. The student(s) receiving the scholarship may attend any college or university and is not required to major in journalism.

Native American students interested in applying for the scholarship can contact David Bordewyk, general manager of the South Dakota Newspaper Association, for an application form.

David Bordewyk
South Dakota Newspaper Association
PO Box 8100
Brookings, SD 57006
(800) 658-3697
E-mail: sdna@sdna.com

The application deadline is March 1 of each year. A scholarship committee with representatives from the South Dakota Newspaper Association, The Freedom Forum Neuharth Center at the University of South Dakota and the Journalism Department at South Dakota State University will review the applications and award the scholarship at the annual Native American Newspaper Career Conference each year.

Lem Price Memorial Scholarship

The Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation also annually awards the Lem Price Memorial Scholarship to a Native American photojournalism student. The scholarship is in memory of Lem Price a Native American photojournalist from Missoula, Mont., who died in a car accident just before he was to attend the 2002 Native American Newspaper Career Conference at Crazy Horse Memorial. For information about this scholarship, contact David Bordewyk at South Dakota Newspaper Association