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Tag: Barack Obama

  • 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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  • WP: Administration to seek $1 billion for tribal schools

    Here, from Washington Post. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it will ask Congress for $1 billion next year to run schools for Native American children — including millions in new money to help fix crumbling buildings. The request — $150 million more than in this year’s budget — sets aside $58 million in new…

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  • ICT – Making American Indian Children a Priority

    Here, and an excerpt: In June of this year, President Barack Obama and the First Lady visited the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. This was ya historic visit. He was only the fourth sitting President to visit Indian Country, joining Coolidge in 1927, Roosevelt in 1936, and Clinton in 1999. The events…

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  • USA Today: Young tribal leaders optimistic about Obama initiative

    Here.  An excerpt: The plight of indigenous youth became the central theme of the Dec. 3 White House Tribal Nations Conference, where Obama spoke about visiting the Crow Nation in Montana while campaigning to become president, and his recent visit to the Lakota reservation at Standing Rock, N.D. “I made another promise, that I’d visit…

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  • Alaska Native News: Native Americans Work to Save Language

    An excerpt: FORT YATES, NORTH DAKOTA—One evening a week, young and old gather in Michael Moore’s classroom in Fort Yates, North Dakota, to learn Lakota — the language of their Sioux tribal ancestors. For many of the students here at Sitting Bull College, it’s a tongue their great grandparents spoke fluently at home. But that…

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  • PBS: Can the U.S. restructure schools to nurture Native American students?

    Here. An overview of this interview with Secretary Sally Jewell: The high school graduation rate for Native Americans is the lowest of any ethnic or racial group in the United States. How can the government assist reservation schools while respecting autonomy of tribes? Judy Woodruff talks to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell about a…

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