Successful applicants will receive $2,500 towards tuition.
Successful applicants will receive $2,500 towards tuition.
To apply for a scholarship you must meet all of the following requirements:
The winner will be determined based on a 750-to-1,000-word essay on this year’s topic. The 2025 essay for this scholarship is:
For the purpose of this scholarship, an Indigenous person (the legal term is Aboriginal person) in Canada, as recognized in the Constitution Act, 1982, is a person who identifies as First Nations (Status/Non-Status), Métis, or Inuit.
Indigenous identity data is collected solely to determine scholarship eligibility. Indigenous identity data will be stored on a secure server and retained for a period of 5 years, after which time it will be destroyed. Indigenous identity data will not be sold or distributed.
Please note that scholarship winners will have their names and the name of the scholarship they won published online, but details about status, membership, etc. will not be shared.
There are 2 options to confirm your Indigenous identity for this scholarship.
For First Nations applicants
You must provide one of the following:
For Métis applicants
You must provide one of the following:
For Inuit applicants
You must provide a copy of an Inuit membership card issued by any one of the 4 Inuit Treaty Organizations or Governments that are covered by the Inuit Nunangat Policy:
For all applicants (voluntary)
In addition to any one of the types of legal documentation listed above, all applicants are welcome to submit an alternative identity term (e.g., Kanien’kehá:ka, Anishinaabe, Treaty #3, etc.) with their application.
Please note that membership to pan-Indigenous organizations will not be recognized.
If a candidate does not possess proof of the documentation listed in Option 1, they must submit a statement (minimum 200 words) about their lived experiences and ongoing relationship to a legally recognized Indigenous community, Nation, or people. This includes specific information about their First Nation, Inuit, or Métis community and can include copies of historical documents or oral testimony.
The statement must be signed by 2 guarantors who are part of the community, Nation, etc. that the applicant describes their ties to. Guarantors must be over the age of 18 and cannot be members of the applicant’s immediate family (i.e., no siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, children, grandchildren, or any step variations).
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Successful applicants will receive $2,500 towards tuition.
For more details, visit NUPGE scholarship webpage.
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