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  • Webinar on BIE Reorganization

    Tue, Oct 13, 2015 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM MDT Join NCAI and the Bureau of Indian Education to hear the latest information pertaining to the BIE reorganization efforts. This webinar will be an opportunity for tribal leaders, educators, and other stakeholders to hear about the goals of the BIE reorganization and how the proposed…

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  • Tribes awarded money to help youth go to college, get career ready

    Here, from Fox 25 in Oklahoma. An excerpt: Some Native American students in our area are getting help to move on to college or careers after graduation. The White House announced winners of $5.3 million in federal grants Thursday. Six tribes in Oklahoma will received some money in the program, including the Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe…

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  • $5.3 Million Awarded to Help American Indian Youth Become College-, Career-Ready

    From the Dep’t of Education, here. An excerpt: The U.S. Department of Education today announced the award of more than $5.3 million in grants to help Native American youth become college- and career-ready. Under the new Native Youth Community Projects (NYCP) program, the Department is making grants to a dozen recipients in nine states that…

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  • New School, New Vision for Isleta Pueblo

    From ICT, here. An excerpt: Isleta Pueblo has taken over the Isleta Elementary School, which since its founding in the 1890s had been under the control of the federal government. The difference in school morale and the children’s behavior, say school officials, is already evident. And it was certainly easy to see the day ICTMN…

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  • Via Indian Country Today: New School, New Vision for Isleta Pueblo

    Isleta Pueblo has taken over the Isleta Elementary School, which since its founding in the 1890s had been under the control of the federal government. The difference in school morale and the children’s behavior, say school officials, is already evident. And it was certainly easy to see the day ICTMN visited—bubbly, friendly, well-behaved children, smiling…

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  • Grace: Among the last of its kind, Flandreau Indian School catches second wind

    From Omaha.com, here.  An excerpt: FLANDREAU, S.D. — At 6 a.m. the dorm’s hallway alarm blared. Then the overhead fluorescent lights beamed on. Slowly, high school students Talitha Plain Bull, Juwan Grant and Ethan Young Bird tumbled out of bed and toward the showers. They had arrived the night before, without much time to settle…

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