Category: Language
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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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The Great Quake and the Great Drowning: Indigenous people’s terrifying tsunami stories are a history and a warning.
Here, from Slate. An interesting article about Native oral history. An excerpt: In the year 1700, on Jan. 26 at 9 at night, in what is now Northern California, Earthquake was running up and down the coast. His feet were heavy, and when he ran, he shook the ground so much it sank down and the…
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NIEA: ESEA Update, More Action Needed!
Excellent update from NIEA, below. Native Education Advocates See Major Wins in ESEA Reauthorization Bills It has been a busy week for Native education advocates on the Hill! As Congress debated and negotiated the reauthorization of the largest civil rights education bill, the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA), NIEA and it’s members advocated…
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TEDNA 114th Congress: Select Indian Education Bills
Here is TEDNA’s 114th Congressional Indian Education Bills update through June 2015.
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Via Indian Country Today: A Lesson From the Miccosukee Tribe: Importance of Putting the ‘Native’ Back Into Native Education
An excerpt: “This language (English), which is good enough for a white man and a black man, ought to be good enough for the red man. It is also believed that teaching an Indian youth in his own barbarous dialect is a positive detriment to him. The first step to be taken toward civilization, toward…