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Native Americans

Tribal Libraries Provide Lifeline to Higher Education

Librarians and directors are making the most of sometimes limited funds to help tribal citizens further their educational and job prospects.

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Athletes Bring Higher Education Awareness to Native Americans

On the playing fields and hardwood floors across the country, Native American athletes who are excelling in sports are illustrating the possibility of higher education to Native communities.

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Oklahoma State University Trying to Open STEM Door to More Native Americans

The newly created Office for the Advancement of Native Americans in Medicine and Science, headed up by Dr. Kent Smith, a professor of anatomy, is reaching out to the 39 federally recognized tribes of Oklahoma.

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For Americans Fighting to Reclaim Their Culture, Thanksgiving Means More Than Food

Today, the Wampanoag and other Native American tribes give thanks for those who fight to bring their languages home again.

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For African-Americans, Determining Native American Ancestry Often a Challenge

Many African-Americans claim some Native ancestry, often based on family oral history passed through the generations but frequently undocumented.

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Leadership & Policy

White House Now Turning Attention to Girls of Color

The White House is planning to focus on improving the lives of girls and women of color, after months of complaints that they were left out of the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative for young men.

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Remembering The First

The American Indian College Fund suggests that one of the ways to observe Native American Heritage Month, also known as American Indian Heritage Day, is to read a book about the history of the native people. Most people know very little about the “First Americans” – first to occupy our continent — and all of […]

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Tennessee Promise Program Has 35K Applications

With the Nov. 1 deadline to apply approaching, the Tennessee Promise program could be on pace to perhaps double the state’s goal of applications.

School Bets Video Game Scholarship Can Draw Talent

CHICAGO ― As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.

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Black Culture Centers Embracing Multiculturalism and Intellectual Conversation

From a proposal in 1987 to create a national network of Black culture centers, the ABCC grown into an international and multicultural organization.

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Leadership & Policy

David Gipp Named Representative of American Indian College Fund

The chancellor of the tribal college in Bismarck has been named as a representative of a scholarship program that is part of a $3.4 billion government settlement with Native American landowners.

Faculty & Staff

‘Authentic’ Blackness Debate Continues

The fact is that most of us who are Black, regardless of socioeconomic status or educational level, will be confronted with the reality that our skin color will render us vulnerable to the fact that we are the “other” in the eyes of some Whites and some other non-Blacks.

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