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A Place for Native Students

An agreement between North Idaho College and the Coeur d’Alene Tribe calls for a campus longhouse to serve as a gathering place for Native American students.

October 31, 2007

Native Americans

Northwest Indian College’s Distance Learning Center Gives American Indians a Close-to-home Opportunity for Higher Education

The distance learning center for Northwest Indian College doesn’t boast a prominent sign. It sits amongst modular buildings that house the tribe’s Head Start center, where a much younger student population goes to class each day.

October 31, 2007

New Pact Makes It Easier for Tribal College Students to Transfer to UW-Madison

MADISON, Wis. An agreement was signed Monday between the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the College of the Menominee Nation that will make full student transfers possible between the two schools, the first formal arrangement with a tribal school in the state.

October 31, 2007

Native Americans

Working Together to Combat Education Issues in Native Communities

Education equality is a birthright for all Native children, and their instruction should be consistent with their cultural, linguistic, family and tribal communities.

October 31, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Title III Grant Helps Expand Distance Education In Indian Country

BISMARCK, N.D. A grant from the U. S. Department of Education will enhance the distance education programs at United Tribes Technical College.

October 31, 2007

Native Americans

Just the Stats: Investment in STEM Programs at Tribal Colleges Working

A new study shows that investment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs at tribal colleges boosts the number of American Indians pursuing STEM degrees.

October 31, 2007

Native Americans

Members Removed From Indian Tribes Complain of Unfairness

PROVIDENCE R.I. Dennis Champlain’s grandfather helped win federal recognition for the Narragansett Indian Tribe. Later, Champlain danced in tribal powwows. He teaches his children that they are Narragansetts.

October 28, 2007

University of North Dakota Needs Tribal Approval to Keep Sioux Nickname

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The state Board of Higher Education settled a lawsuit with the NCAA over the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname, giving the school three years to get tribal approval to keep it.

October 25, 2007

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Report: Judge Was in 1960s Student Group With Cartoon Mascot

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The judge hearing arguments in a lawsuit over the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname belonged to a student group in the 1960s whose members wore a cartoon American Indian mascot on their jackets, The Forum reports in a copyright story.

October 23, 2007

Native Americans

Wisconsin Tribes Speak Out Against Offensive Sports Mascots

GREEN BAY Wis. Ahead of a state hearing this week on racially insensitive sports mascots, members of Wisconsin tribes decried the Washington Redskins’ name and logo as the NFL team played the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday.

October 15, 2007

Native Americans

Survey Finds More Prejudice Toward American Indians

TULSA, Okla. Results of a racism survey at the University of Tulsa showing American Indians more likely to be regarded with prejudice than other minorities by White students surprised researchers.

October 1, 2007

Native Americans

Massachusetts students ordered to pay up or face lawsuits for music piracy

BOSTON The Recording Industry Association of America wants 83 students and staff at several Massachusetts universities to pay $3,000 each or face lawsuits for allegedly downloading music illegally using school computers.

September 20, 2007

University of Colorado not selling beer to public at basketball games

BOULDER Colo. Beer sales to the general public will no longer be offered at Coors Events Center for University of Colorado basketball games.

September 18, 2007

Native Americans

Tribe settles with California school district over discrimination claims

Christine Wilson remembers the way the father of her children, an American Indian of the Paiute tribe, was picked on at school in Bishop, the small mountain town where they grew up. But watching their daughters get roughed up and suspended unfairly told her it was time for real change, she said.

September 17, 2007

Fall 2007 OSU system shows increases in Hispanic, Native American enrollment, but overall system enrollment declines

STILLWATER Okla. Lower high school graduation rates, increased admission standards and stiff competition from neighboring universities caused a slight decline in enrollment across Oklahoma State University’s five campuses.

September 16, 2007

Native Americans

All-Star event seeks to boost college prospects for American Indians

BARTLESVILLE Okla. Carol Conner asks participants in Oklahoma’s annual Indian All-State basketball games the same question every year: How many of them are planning on attending college?

August 12, 2007

Native Americans

Learning N.C. American Indian culture helps broaden horizons

ST. JAMES N.C. The flat coastal plain, punctuated by trailers and cornfields, offers few clues that this is the home of the Waccamaw-Siouans, a little-known American Indian tribe that has lived in southeastern North Carolina since the mid-1700s.

August 12, 2007

Native Americans

Rancher, linguist working to preserve native language

TWIN BUTTES N.D. An effort to save the Mandan language may rest on the shoulders of a 75-year-old horse rancher.

August 6, 2007