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Nevada Higher Ed Seeks Increased American Indian Enrollment

Higher education officials have formed a coalition to try to turn around the historically low number of American Indian students who go on to college in Nevada.

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UC-Davis Scholars Working to Preserve Native Languages

The first time Jose Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording, he cried.

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New Academic Journal Focuses on History of American Indians in South

Dr. Greg O’Brien, a University of Southern Mississippi associate professor of history, will be a founding editor of The Native South, a new academic journal that seeks to broaden and challenge the traditional study of American Indians in the South, according to a report in the Hattiesburg American.

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Stalemate Persists Over American Indian Remains at UC Museum

Native groups want more control over repatriation process.

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Study Reveals Low Retention Rates for Nevada’s American Indian Students

A study presented to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents shows that only 57 percent of American Indian freshmen at Nevada colleges and universities continue on to their sophomore year, according to an article in University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s student newspaper, The Rebel Yell. The rest either transfer to an out-of-state […]

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Congress May Apologize to American Indians

WASHINGTON A resolution that formally apologizes to American Indians for years of government mistreatment and abuse will be part of an Indian health care bill expected to pass the Senate later this month. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, who has pushed the measure since 2004, said he hopes the measure “helps heal the wounds that have […]

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American Indian UND Graduates Want To Make Their Case for Getting Rid of the Fighting Sioux Nickname

Some Spirit Lake tribal members who are University of North Dakota graduates want to make their case for getting rid of UND’s Fighting Sioux nickname before any tribal vote is held.

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Dartmouth President To Step Down

Dartmouth College President James Wright will step down next year to spend more time working to help wounded veterans go to college and rededicating himself to his academic field of study.

Tribe Likely to Vote on UND Nickname

BISMARCK N.D. Members of the Spirit Lake Nation likely will vote on whether to support the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname, the tribe’s leader says. Chairwoman Myra Pearson said Saturday that the tribe has grown tired of the issue. “It’s been something that’s not as important as our health care or housing or […]

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MSU Program Seeks to Educate American Indian School Administrators

BOZEMAN Mont. A Montana State University program that aims to more than triple the number of American Indians serving as principals and superintendents in the state recently received a $1.3 million federal grant to continue its work, the university said. The program, Indian Leadership and Development or ILEAD, seeks to reduce the administrative turnover at […]

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San Francisco State To Become Third California University To Offer Bachelor’s in American Indian Studies

San Francisco State University, home to the only College of Ethnic Studies in the United States, has added a bachelor’s degree in American Indian studies this semester.

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Mayville State, Tribal College Considering Agreement

MAYVILLE, N.D. Officials at Mayville State University and Cankdeska Cikana tribal college on the Spirit Lake Sioux reservation are considering a range of possible cooperative agreements. They include delivering four-year degree courses to Spirit Lake graduates on the tribal campus, through the Internet, interactive video and visiting professors, said Keith Stenehjem, Mayville’s vice president for […]

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