Like many Natives and our allies across our Grandmother Earth, Unci Maka, I have joined the Idle No More movement, attending round dance gatherings, praying for Chief Theresa Spence and her supporters, sharing the stories I hear and read and perusing news and opinion pieces.
Like many Natives and our allies across our Grandmother Earth, Unci Maka, I have joined the Idle No More movement, attending round dance gatherings, praying for Chief Theresa Spence and her supporters, sharing the stories I hear and read and perusing news and opinion pieces.
Continue reading …Thirty MSIs were given a $100,000 “capacity-building grant” to put practices and processes in place to help more first-generation students of color achieve academic success, the brief states.
Continue reading …Recounting her experiences growing up on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico and the isolating effects of academia on minority students, Sandra Begay-Campbell struck a chord with the women at this year’s NCORE event.
Continue reading …The annual, student-run Stanford Powwow draws more than 300 dancers in full regalia from around the country and Canada and celebrates the respective cultures of the 300-plus Indian students on campus.
Continue reading …The White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education will host forums around the U.S. in the coming weeks to seek ideas on boosting educational outcomes for indigenous populations.
Continue reading …The University of North Dakota will resume using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname despite threats from the NCAA, the school’s president said Wednesday, marking the latest twist in a years-long fight about a name that some consider offensive.
Continue reading …The University of California, Berkeley, doesn’t have to reinstate a former untenured Native American faculty member although a jury awarded her retaliation damages, a California Court of Appeal has ruled.
Continue reading …In October, the National Library of Medicine debuted a two-year exhibition called “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness.”
Continue reading …In 2011, the college awarded 204 diplomas and certificates, 155 in 2010 and 133 in 2009.
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