Tag: Language Immersion

• 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…

  February 18, 2016

  Announcement, Language

  Dakota, Fort Yates, Lakhotiyapi Summer Institute, Lakota, Lakota Language Consortium, Language, Language education, Language Immersion, LSI, Sitting Bull College, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

• Via Indian Country Today: New School, New Vision for Isleta Pueblo

  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 visited—bubbly, friendly, well-behaved children, smiling…

  September 23, 2015

  Article

  BIE, BIE School, Isleta Pueblo, Language education, Language Immersion, Tiwa Talk, tribally run school

• Via Indian Country Today: Native American Education Goes to Congress: 7 Bills to Watch

  Congress has before it several pieces of legislation that could have major impacts on the education of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children. To participate in the process, let your state’s Congressional delegation know whether you want them to support these bills. Exemption From Budget Cuts On June 4, Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont.,…

  June 10, 2015

  Article, Legal, Politics

  Bills, Budget Cut Exemption, Congress, Indian Country Today, Language Immersion, Laugnauges Reauthorization Act, Native American Education Policy, Native American Indian Education Act, Native Education, Native Hawaiian Education, Policy, Teacher Loan Forgiveness, Unique Indian Learning