On the Moapa Indian Reservation, a school bus dropped off a handful of students who made their way into a portable building equipped with computer labs and a library. The children plopped their ...
How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous teachings. “Grandson, I’m going to ask you questions about this rock,” said ...
PABLO — On a bright, crisp October morning, seven students from Salish Kootenai College headed to class for their final exam. It wouldn’t take place in a classroom, but rather a nondescript parking ...
In February 1874, one of the state’s first government-funded Native American boarding schools opened on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Southern Oregon. It operated as part of a larger federal ...
Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts of a look at the status of Native American education in South Dakota amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2, coming Oct. 7, will examine one school district’s ...
Education could be a solution to poor race relations, economic development and improved quality of life, tribal educators urged recently. American Indian teachers hired by non-tribal public schools, ...
There is no shortage of problems in education on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Here are a few findings from a recent Star-Tribune analysis: Native students are more than twice as likely as their ...
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Susan La Flesche Picotte became the first American Indian woman to graduate from medical school, and is notable for founding an independently funded hospital on the Omaha reservation in Nebraska.