Category: Language
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Omnibus Bill Press Release
To view the press release regarding the Omnibus bill- please click the following link: Omnibus Bill Press Release. To read the language of the bill, please click here. Discussion of the items reviewed in the press release start on p. 1006.
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Interagency Native American Languages Summit 2016
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA), the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), and the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education (WHIAIANE) will be hosting a Native American Languages Summit, as agreed to under the Memorandum of Agreement on Native Languages signed in 2012. The purpose of the 2016 Summit is to…
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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs schedules meeting and hearing
From Indianz.com, here. Education will be among the top discussion topics. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will hold a business meeting and legislative hearing on May 11. Three items are on the agenda for the business meeting. They are: • S.1163, the Native American Languages Reauthorization Act. The bill extends grants awarded under the…
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Inupiaq Drum and Dance: A Cultural Renaissance
From EarthSongs, here. An excerpt: Alaska Native music and dance traditions are unique expressions of culture and spirituality. Each village has its own unique style of dance and music, reflective of a place in its geographic environment and history. In the 1960s and 70s, the Iñupiaq were among the many Native communities who joined together to…
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Via ICTMN.com: Learn Your Language: Lakota Summer Institute Coming Up
The 10thannual Lakota Summer Institute will be held June 6 to 24 at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota. “For me, this was a spiritual journey which I will never forget,” Rick Williams, a 2015 LSI participant, told the Tribal College Journal. Hundreds of Lakota learners and educators have attended LSI in the…
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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…