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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.

April 17, 2008

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DIVERSIFYING PEDAGOGY

Indigenous Ways of Knowing has been making its way out of tribal colleges into mainstream universities, but this method of teaching has its critics.

April 16, 2008

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Sorority Party at UND Prompts Discrimination Complaint

A group of American Indian students is upset about a University of North Dakota sorority party last fall in which students dressed up in Indian costumes and wore red makeup on their faces and bodies.

March 23, 2008

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State, UW Join Push for Tribal Center at Riverton College

Plans for a long-sought American Indian center at Central Wyoming College in Riverton have gotten a boost with the University of Wyoming joining the project and the state Legislature’s approval of $1.1 million in funding.

March 12, 2008

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Providing a ‘Full Circle of Support’

With less than 1 percent of American Indian students majoring in the sciences, AISES founders say they are on a mission greater than themselves.

March 4, 2008

Students

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.

February 26, 2008

Native Americans

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.

February 25, 2008

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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.

February 21, 2008

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Stalemate Persists Over American Indian Remains at UC Museum

Native groups want more control over repatriation process.

February 19, 2008

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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 […]

February 19, 2008

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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.

February 18, 2008

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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.

February 3, 2008