All posts tagged "Native American"

Tribal college campuses are falling apart. The U.S. hasn’t fulfilled its promise to fund the schools.

The 37 tribal colleges across 14 states can't afford basic repairs and upgrades.

Native American charter schools: Adobe Spanish style off-white, 2-story large building

Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Native American Community Academy network has big plans but faces growing pains.

Teen Native American girl in red graduation cap and gown walks toward front of auditorium with seated fellow graduates in the background

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At graduations, Native American students seek acceptance of tribal regalia

Whether she could was up to her Oklahoma high school. Administrators told her no.

Karen Pittman opinion: Black woman with dark-frame glasses an hair pulled back stands leaning against wood porch railing wearing dark jacket and colorful scarf with greenery in the background.

Guest Opinion Essay

South Dakota afterschool program shows the power of authentically responding to community needs

The Cheyenne River Youth Project has managed to access public funding bottlenecked in school budgets.

Native youth leadership program grants: group of young Native women standing in front of bridge and bay

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Native youth leadership development program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Native/Tribal Youth, Native/Tribal Communities, Youth Leadership/Development | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Apr. 30, 2023

Native community food system improvement grants: happy Native mother and her two children gathering food in field

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Native community food system improvement grants

GRANT FOCUS: Native/Tribal Communities, Native/Tribal Youth, Food Access, Health, Rural Communities | Amount: Up to $32,000 | Deadline: Feb. 26, 2023

Wyoming social studies: Herd of brown bison graze in grassy field with mountains in the background

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Wind River Reservation schools lead the way in teaching new social studies standards in Wyoming

The new standards include the “cultural heritage, history and contemporary contributions of American Indians.”

Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools: row of people sitting and looking off to the side

Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools

In Arizona alone, there were 47 federal Indian boarding schools.

native youth grants: smiling young man in front of natural background

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Native youth aftercare support services grants

GRANT FOCUS: Native/Tribal Youth, Behavioral Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Sobriety, Aftercare | Amount: $600,000 | Deadline: Sept. 19, 2022

Native indigenous language: Man with black hair pulled back wearing native clothing with re detailing on white shirt stands in desert landscape i front of two adults holding signs

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‘Without language, we are nothing’: New Mexico to pay Native-language teachers equally

Today, students in New Mexico schools can study many of the eight indigenous languages of New Mexico’s 23 tribal entities. It’s an...

US church boarding school pasts: memorials of lights and flowers on grass in front of building and tree at sunset

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First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning

As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis' historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches...

New Mexico to offer equal pay to Native American teachers

New Mexico will begin to offer equal pay to dozens of Indigenous language teachers as part of a new law aimed at...

New Mexico passes new child protection law: statue of children playing outside New Mexico state Capitol in the snow

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Native activists hail passage of New Mexico Indian Family Protection Act

New Mexico lawmakers have passed a bill that strengthens protections for Native American children in state care. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is...

Native American: A child walking down a path to view ruins.

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Guest Opinion Essay

Native American Children Protected in Groundbreaking Foster Care Settlement

For decades, we have repeated and recapitulated: Our nation’s foster care system is broken. New Mexico, which receives the lowest markers of...

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New Mexico Foster Care Intends to Become ‘Trauma Responsive’ in Lawsuit Settlement

New Mexico’s already low performance in child welfare hit rock bottom on Sept. 22, 2018: Thirteen foster youth, represented by Disability Rights...

CYFD: Smiling man with red beard talks to other men in hallway, all wearing business suits.

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CYFD Forging Ahead With Native American Court, Kinship Care

It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...

ICWA court: On left, 2 women in black dresses look right. On right, woman with earrings, necklace smiles.

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Native American Court to Run Under Bigger Concept of Family

It’s already tough sledding for New Mexico children and families in the state’s fractured foster care and child welfare systems. Those challenges...

tribal college child care and welfare: happy native american children outside building

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Native Community Development Grants

Subject: Community, Community Development, Civic Engagement, Native Youth | Deadline: May 2, 2019 | Amount: Unspecified

Tender portrait of native american woman with her little son

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Guest Opinion Essay

Indian Child Welfare Act Needs to Be Supported to Help Foster Kids, Tribes

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold on Dec. 5 a ruling that would declare the Indian Child Welfare Act...

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