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2014 Native Languages Summit: Working Together for Native American Language Success
The Departments of the Interior, Health and Human Services, and Education invite tribal and school administrators implementing Native language activities and receiving funding from the Administration for Children and Families, the Bureau of Indian Education, and/or the Department of Education to a Native Languages Summit being held on June 20, 2014. The conference is coordinating…
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Pine Ridge: America’s most forgotten children
Statistics show Native American children in BIE schools are falling behind other minority children. MSNBC reports on one girl’s experience in Pine Ridge, SD. An excerpt: Carleigh is a Native American sixth grader at the Wounded Knee School located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where a well-documented plague of poverty and violence has festered since the…
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NMAI Classroom Lesson – Native People and the Land: The A:shiwi (Zuni) People
The Lesson materials are here. Other lessons from the National Museum of the American Indian will be highlighted, but can also be found here. About the lessons: The museum provides a variety of materials for use in the classroom. All have been developed by the museum’s education staff in collaboration with Native community members. These…
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Ak-Chin Education on Introduces Computer-Based GED Program to Prepare Students for the New 2014 GED Exam
An excerpt, from the Ak-Chin O’odham Runner: The Ak-Chin GED Program is adapting with the times in order to thoroughly prepare GED students for the new 2014 GED exam. The new GED exam requires students to have more background knowledge about exam topics than the previous version of the exam. On the 2002 version of…
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From Turtle Talk: A Collection of Stories and Links about Billy Frank
Here. Billy Frank’s Last Post at NWIFC: Keep Big Oil Out of Grays Harbor PBS Newshour: Northwest “Salmon People” Face Future without Fish Oral History Project, Where the Salmon Run Bunky Echohawk’s Portrait of Billy Frank NY Times: On the River Bank with Billy Frank Jr. Indians and Salmon: Making Nature Whole Seattle Times: Billy Frank: Champion of Tribal…