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  • Chickasaw Recruitment and Retention Program

    Chickasaw Recruitment and Retention Program

    Chickasaw students can apply for the Chickasaw Nation Recruitment and Retention program, which endeavors to “prepare, support and empower Chickasaw college students for success.” The program has resource offices on-campus at five colleges in Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma (OU), University of Central Oklahoma (UCO), Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC), East Central University (ECU), and Murray…

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  • Pathways Internship Program

    Pathways Internship Program

    The Bureau of Indian Affairs offers the Pathways Internship Program, designed to “help Native students join the workforce after finishing school.” College students can get a paid internship without prior work experience through the Pathways program, which can turn into a permanent career if requirements are met. Trainees will be paid based on the federal…

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  • “Know Before ‘U’ Go”

    Know Before “U” Go is a college preparation program designed by the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC). The program teaches about post-secondary education, financial aid, and scholarships for the upcoming fall of 2016. They will have two locations set up. The first location is in Seattle, Washington in October and the second location in Rapid…

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  • Legislative Hearing to receive testimony on the following bills:

    Date: 04/06/2016 02:15 PM Location: Dirksen628 Type:Legislative Hearing  S. 2304, a bill to provide for tribal demonstration projects for the integration of early childhood development, education, including Native language and culture, and related services, for evaluation of those demonstration projects, and for other purposes;  S. 2468, a bill to require the Secretary of the Interior…

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  • Department of Education Consultations

    The Department of Education has prepared a revision to its policy for your consideration and comment. Tribal consultation on this draft will take place at the following dates and locations: April 22, 2015 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM April 26, 2015 Tribal Self-Governance Conference, Reno, NV June 28, 2015 NCAI Mid-Year Meeting, St. Paul,…

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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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