Category: Events
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Education Northwest and TEDNA Webinar: STEP Program Lessons Learned – November 25
Please join us on November 25th, 12:00pm-1:30pm PST for a webinar to discuss lessons learned from the State Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) grants. As many of you are aware, the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education is seeking feedback regarding the priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria for the STEP program. The purpose of…
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GAO: Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending
The U.S. Government Accountability Office published and released GAO-15-121, a Report to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives entitled Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending. The highlights can be seen here. The actual report can be seen here. From the highlights: What GAO Found Unlike…
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Huff Po – 1890 and 1973: Do We Really Know What Happened at Wounded Knee?
Here, written by Mark Tilsen. An excerpt: My three children are Oglala Lakota. They grew up here on the Pine Ridge Reservation. If they hadn’t, maybe they wouldn’t have known about the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. That’s because Wounded Knee, the most famous catastrophe in Native history, is rarely taught in U.S. schools. Sometimes…
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SCIA – Oversight Hearing on “Protecting our Children’s Mental Health: Preventing and Addressing Childhood Trauma in Indian Country.”
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold an oversight hearing on Protecting our Children’s Mental Health. You can view the hearing here on November 19th. Date: 11/19/2014 02:30 PM EST Location: 628 Senate Dirksen Bldg Type: Oversight Hearing
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MTV – Rebel Music: Native Noise Thursday, November 13 at 4 PM EST
Here, from Rebel Music. This is a piece that MTV is doing on Native music and life. An excerpt from the first chapter, War Paint: “How many people even know a Native (American)?” he asked. “Unfortunately, in the grand scheme of things, we’re not in their minds.” In 2012 the clothing chain GAP put out…