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Stakeholders Work To Boost Higher Education Attainment Rates Among Native Americans

In 1993, Dwight K. Lomayesva founded the American Indian Recruitment (AIR) programs with his wife.

Dwight K. Lomayesva

Haskell Indian Nations Professor Fights Climate Change Through Indigenous Land Ethic

A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Daniel Wildcat has been a sociology professor at Haskell Indian Nations University for about three decades now, but his influence has since echoed to a national scale.

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Missing and Murdered Haunt Tribal Nations

Thousands of indigenous people have vanished or have been found murdered. And students at TCUs fight for justice.

Ashley Loring Heavyrunner

Tribal Law and Economics Program Launches at George Mason University

Adam Crepelle, assistant professor of law and director of the Tribal Law & Economics Project at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School

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Researchers Engage Natives in Alzheimer's Research

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California Native American Commission Investigates CSU's Treatment of Sacred Land

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Montana State University Receives $2.2M Grant to Recruit and Retain Alaska Native and American Indian Nurses

The United States Health Resources and Services Administration gifted a $2.2 million grant to Montana State University (MSU) to recruit and retain more Alaska Native and American Indian nurses. Using the four-year Nursing Workforce Diversity grant, 15 American Indian and Alaska Native nursing students enrolled in MSU College of Nursing’s Caring for Our Own Program […]

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Broadband Access Still A Struggle for Tribal Colleges and Universities, 18 Months Into the Pandemic

Tribal Colleges and Universities have become experts at navigating slim resources, but even eighteen months into a pandemic that continues to wreak havoc on higher education, access to internet remain an obstacle for many of these institutions.

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Colorado’s Fort Lewis College Considers Search for Indigenous Remains on Campus

With searches of federal archives and newspaper records underway for two former indigenous boarding schools in Colorado, Fort Lewis College (FLC) in Durango says it is considering a search for the remains of indigenous children on its campus, reports 9NEWS. The news comes after a tragic discovery in Canada earlier this year when a team […]

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UVA Removes ‘Racist’ Conqueror of The Northwest Statue From Campus

The University of Virginia’s statue of Revolutionary War figure George Rogers Clark was removed from its campus, following the City of Charlottesville’s removal of two Confederate statues and one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea, reports the university’s student newspaper The Cavelier Daily. Erected in 1921, “the statue depicts Clark on horseback with a crew behind […]

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The American Indian College Fund Takes On Computer Science

Native Americans are historically underrepresented in the field of computer science, but a grant to four Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) from the American Indian College Fund looks to reverse that trend with the TCU Computer Science Initiative. “Computer science is foundational to so many aspects of life today. Everything from information technology, to entertainment, […]

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Emory University Plans to Address Racially Fraught Past With Name Changes, Memorials and Land Acknowledgements

Emory University announced this week that it will be making several plans to reconcile with its racially fraught past, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. One of these plans include the renaming of several buildings. Emory will rename Language Hall on its Oxford College in honor of the late Horace J. Johnson Jr., who became the first […]

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