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Navajo Leaders Meet with Indian Affairs Delegate

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. Needs across Indian Country include jails, schools, infrastructure and water. On the Navajo Nation, those needs surface on a much larger scale than elsewhere, a U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs official says.

Leadership & Policy

To educate a nation; Native American tribe hopes to bring higher education to an Arizona reservation – Tohono O’Odham Nation, Papago Indian Reservation, Sells, Arizona

When the Tohono O’Odham Nation’s surveyed its members last year about barriers that they faced to obtaining a college degree, recurring themes kept cropping up. The nearest college to the Sells, Arizona community was more than an hour’s drive away. Moving to a city with a college was not an option for others. And many found the high cost of big-city rent prohibitive.

Faculty & Staff

Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots

Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots

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Learning to live a warrior’s life: institute seeks to improve Native American education – National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Native American students often struggle academically at colleges and universities nationwide because the institutions are virtually foreign environments. As a result, says Pam Agoyo, director of the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education, half of the first-year Native American students who start college leave by the end of their first year.

UCLA Hires New Director of Basketball Operations

LOS ANGELES Joe Hillock, the women’s coach at Southern Utah for 10 years, has been hired as director of operations for the UCLA men’s basketball program.

Native Americans

University of Wisconsin woman’s disappearance remains a mystery

MADISON Wis. Was Kelly Nolan kidnapped? Is she lost, hurt, or worse? Or did she just walk away and not look back?

Leadership & Policy

Former state Indian Affairs official named to UND search panel

BISMARCK N.D. A tribal college president and former director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission has been appointed to the committee that will recruit the University of North Dakota’s new president.

The Search Committee Handbook

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Oklahoma American Indian tribe receives $3.8 million federal grant for education, economic development

WASHINGTON The Oklahoma-based Muscogee (Creek) Nation will receive a $3.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to be used for technology-driven regional education and economic development activities, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said Friday.

Leadership & Policy

President of United Tribes Upbeat About Prospect of American Indian Committee Member for UND

BISMARCK N.D. United Tribes Technical College President David Gipp says he is encouraged by the prospect of an American Indian member of the committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president.

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Board President Wants Indian Rep on UND Search Committee

BISMARCK N.D. After first rebuffing the idea, the president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education says he will now recommend adding an American Indian to the panel that will recruit a new president for the University of North Dakota.

The Search Committee Handbook

Native Americans

Tribal members receiving an education thanks to gambling

MESA Ariz. One of the payoffs of gambling on the Gila River Indian Community is education paid for by the tribe.

Leadership & Policy

Request For American Indian Presence In UND Search Denied

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.

The Search Committee Handbook

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