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American Indian Education Initiatives Face Great Challenges and Greater Budget Cuts
Education reform that will prepare Native American youth for the workplace will be the cornerstone of the 2008 agenda for the nation's leading Native American organizations. Spearheaded by the National Indian Education Association (NIEA), this agenda will "keep Native students moving toward educational equity…with their white counterparts," said NIEA President Dr. Willard Sakiestewa Gilbert, at the Annual State of Indian Education Address on February 11. ... full story |
Op-Ed: Rolling Back Indigenous Rights
Fresh from state ballot victories that roll back the clock on affirmative action and restrict marriage rights, conservatives are opening a new front in its battle against human rights...
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American Indian Education Initiatives Face Great Challenges and Greater Budget Cuts
Op-Ed: Rolling Back Indigenous Rights
Op-Ed: Cutting Native Peoples' Health Care
LCCR Joins Native Groups in Call for House Committee
U.S. Civil Rights Commission, New York Department of Education Call for End to Native American Mascots
Indigenous Peoples Resources

National Congress of American Indians
Fourth Annual State of Indian Nations
Brief History of U.S.-Tribal Relations
Tribal Sovereignty
U.S. Authorities Fail to Protect Native American and Alaska Native Women From Shocking Rates of Rape
 

 

 
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