Deadline: September 1, 2025. Deadline for 2024-25 graduates is September 30, 2025.
A new scholarship that has recently become available to our members. This scholarship is being provided by Mr. Leonard Miller, a retired farmer from Neligh, NE, and named in honor of White Buffalo Girl. In 1877, on the Ponca Trail of Tears to Indian Territory in OK, White Buffalo Girl, the daughter of Black Elk and Moon Hawk of the Ponca Tribe, became ill and died upon reaching the town of Neligh. Her grief-stricken father asked the local citizens to provide her with a proper burial. This the community did willingly, and, to this day, they have continued to care for her grave.
According to Mr. Miller’s wishes, the scholarship is being made available specifically to our Ponca members nationwide with the field of study open to any type of degree. Students may seek either two-year or four-year degrees. For those students seeking four-year degrees, they will continue to be funded over a four-year period as long as
they maintain satisfactory progress. It is Mr. Miller’s hope that by the end of the four years, these students will have completed their bachelor’s degrees and become successful members of their communities. Students in associate degree programs may either stop once they complete their two-year programs or may continue toward their bachelor’s degrees. The amount to be allocated per student is $5,000.00 per school year or $2,500.00 per semester and is need-based.