Cheryl M. Kulas
Executive Director of Indian Affairs
Cheryl M. Kulas earned a Liberal Arts Bachelor’s degree at the University of North Dakota in 1973 and a Master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She has been Ford Foundation and Bush Leadership Fellows. Ms. Kulas past experience includes serving as Director of Indian Education in the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, a position she has held for 12 years, where she coordinated the development of the North Dakota Tribal Curriculum Project developing curriculum resource guides for North Dakota schools. She was a key staff member of a Defense Procurement Pilot Project, to market and procure US Department of Defense contracts for minority and tribally-owned businesses. She was a former planner for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.
Her past experiences include serving as consultant to the U.S. Office of Indian Education, National Indian Policy Center, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory and North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, on diversity issues, and member of the Task Force for the Improving American Schools Act – National Conference Agenda. She has served on a 1989 State Interim Legislative Committee on Indian Jurisdiction, and also on the North Dakota Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission.
She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the National Indian Education Association. Cheryl is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation of South Dakota and a member and descendent of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa of North Dakota. She has two grown children, a son and a daughter, and two granddaughters, all of whom live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Indian Affairs Commission: (701) 328-2428; ndiac@nd.gov
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