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Tag: Native Americans in the United States

  • 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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  • REMINDER for TOMORROW: Oversight Hearing on “Protecting our Children’s Mental Health: Preventing and Addressing Childhood Trauma in Indian Country”

    Date: 11/19/2014 02:30 PM Location: 628 Senate Dirksen Bldg Type: Oversight Hearing Witnesses: THE HONORABLE ROBERT L. LISTENBEE JR. DR. YVETTE ROUBIDEAUX, Acting Director-Indian Health Service MS. KANA ENOMOTO, Principal Deputy Administrator-Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Panel 1 MR. RICK VAN DEN POL Director and Principal Investigator-Institute of Educational Research and Service, The…

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  • Call for Comment: Proposed Priorities, Requirements, Definitions, and Selection Criteria-State Tribal Education Partnership Program

    The Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education proposes priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria for the State Tribal Education Partnership (STEP) program. The Assistant Secretary may use one or more of these priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2015 and later years. We propose this action to enable…

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  • ICT- Will Indian Country Funding Increase Under Budget Deal?

    Here. As the excerpt below shows, there is still a lot of uncertainty until the details are hammered out. It is a macro-level deal that makes recommendations on topline discretionary spending levels for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, so the details of how Indian program funding will be affected have yet to be ironed out…

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  • SD report recommends ways to help Indian students

    The articles are here and here. PIERRE — A new report from the South Dakota Board of Regents recommends ways to help American Indian students succeed in state universities. A working group recommends that campuses reach out to Native American high school students to help them enroll in college. It also recommends providing more scholarships and grants to…

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  • ICT – Lessons of Our Land Curriculum Launched During Heritage Month

    Here.  An excerpt: Learning about Native history and culture doesn’t need to be relegated to one month of the year. Though the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) thought Native American Heritage Month would be a good time to release its Native American land curriculum website for pre-K and K-12 classrooms. “The launch of this website in November coincides…

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