Max Yates<\/strong>, a senior biochemistry major from Bozeman, have received the Daniel Voyich Community Involvement award. The award honors Dan Voyich, a native of Yugoslavia and an MSU graduate who ran a Bureau of Indian Affairs School in Sales, Arizona, which convinced him of the need for advocacy and support for Native students. He returned to MSU and met with then-president Leon Johnson, to gain support to begin a Native student support program at MSU. He spent 30 years as director and adviser to MSU American Indian and Alaskan Native students.\r\n<\/p>\r\nMorsette, a member of the Chippewa Cree Nation, is an active member of American Indian Council and the Society of Indigenous Educators. She has served as an America Reads, America Counts tutor, has volunteered with the HRDC\u2019s summer lunch program and the Bounty of the Bridgers food pantry and is a community assistant in MSU family\/graduate student housing. Morsette\u2019s art has been featured at American Indian Heritage Day and in MSU\u2019s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls exhibit at the Strand Union. \r\n
<\/P>\r\nYates has worked to expand MSU\u2019s American Indian Success Center tutoring program, leading the program for three years, and has strengthened a partnership with MSU\u2019s Honors College. A Truman scholar, MSU Presidential Scholar and a recipient of an MSU Award for Excellence in spring 2021, Yates is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, volunteers with Eagle Mount and MSU\u2019s Voice Center.\r\n
<\/p>\r\nDanielle Antelope<\/strong>, a senior from Browning majoring in sustainable food systems and a member of the Eastern Shoshone tribe and descendant of the Blackfeet nation, has won the Harriette Cushman Outstanding MSU Indian Student. The award honors Harriette Cushman, who was hired in 1922 to be MSU Extension\u2019s first poultry specialist. She worked with the Blackfeet reservation for a time to establish poultry there. She also worked with MSU staff and faculty to develop an unofficial network of advocates and support staff for Native students.\r\n<\/P>\r\nAntelope was MSU\u2019s 2019\u20132020 Newman Civic Fellow. She co-chairs FAST Blackfeet, or Food Access and Sustainability Team, in Blackfeet country, which was a critical and successful program throughout the COVID pandemic. She is a recipient of the MSU Award for Excellence in spring 2021. She has a son.\r\n
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