Tag: White House
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Throwback Thursday: TEDNA Founders at the White House, 2004
Vickie Vasquez, Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Indian Education in 2004 who awarded NARF a grant to start TEDNA. Quinton Roman Nose, Marilyn Cuch (In 2004, President George W. Bush acknowledged Mrs. Cuch’s work in preparing American Indian/Alaska Native teachers at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas.) , Joyce Silverthorne, Jerome Jainga (except…
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Webinar: What Native Youth Need to Know About the Affordable Care Act
Representatives from the White House, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) and the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) are inviting youth to join a webinar/call to learn about the Affordable Care Act and its impact on Native youth. Webinar details, instructions to join, and the agenda are…
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ICT – Top Ten Tribal Desires at 2013 White House Tribal Nations Conference
Here. We are glad to see number 4: 4) Support Indian education. Tribal leaders talked a lot about this issue behind closed doors with administrations officials. They noted that when initially campaigning for president in 2008, President Obama himself promised to make Indian education a priority. Instead, attention has been haphazard, Native student progress has declined, and…