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Category: Culture

  • Resolution to be Introduced to Rename Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day in Minneapolis Public Schools

    From Last Real Indians, here.  An excerpt: On April 14th, 2015, a resolution will be introduced to the Minneapolis school board to recognize the second Monday in October, the federal holiday Columbus Day, as Indigenous Peoples Day. In April 2014, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed an resolution recognizing the second Monday in October as…

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  • Aspen Institute: Michelle Obama Issues Call to Support Native American Youth

    Here, and an excerpt: Native American youth represent some of the most inspiring, resilient leaders across our country, especially in tribal and urban Indian communities. Their resiliency exists despite health, education, and other significant disparities, structural racism, and barriers to success. At a recent convening at the White House, co-hosted by the Aspen InstituteCenter for…

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  • The boarding schools taught us to be ashamed of being Indian

    From Indianz.com, here.  An excerpt: “It’s hard to forgive,” said a Lakota Episcopal elder from the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation with his voice wavering. Tears sprang to my eyes as he shared his story of being punished for speaking Lakota as a child in a Catholic boarding school. I knew this was a deep pain…

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  • Guest Post from TEDNA Board Member Kerry Venegas on California AB 163 and Teacher Credentialling

    Kerry Venegas is the Director of the Tribal Education Department for the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and is providing an update on California AB 163, which expands Native teaching credential authorization for Tribes that passed as AB 544 in 2009. AB 163 is still in the legislative process, but doesn’t seem to have any major roadblocks. Even…

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  • Class takes a walk in Standing Bear’s footsteps

    Via the Journal Star, here, with a h/t to Indianz.com.  An expert: NEAR WYMORE — The days must have been hotter, longer than anyone on this pleasant spring morning could begin to imagine. Ryan Christensen knows he could never fully understand what the Poncas experienced on that long march south to Oklahoma from northeastern Nebraska, so…

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  • Colorado House Education Committee passes a bill to limit Native American mascots

    Here is an article from the Boulder Daily Camera on this.  Here and here are other articles. We previously posted about this here, where you can see the actual bill.   Matthew Campbell, a staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, testified on TEDNA’s behalf in support of the bill.  You can see his testimony here.  An excerpt:…

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