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All posts tagged "Native American"
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853NewsNative Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education
The Native American Community Academy network has big plans but faces growing pains.
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1.1KNewsAt graduations, Native American students seek acceptance of tribal regalia
Whether she could was up to her Oklahoma high school. Administrators told her no.
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssaySouth Dakota afterschool program shows the power of authentically responding to community needs
The Cheyenne River Youth Project has managed to access public funding bottlenecked in school budgets.
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482GrantsNative youth leadership development program grants
GRANT FOCUS: Native/Tribal Youth, Native/Tribal Communities, Youth Leadership/Development | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Apr. 30, 2023
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484GrantsNative community food system improvement grants
GRANT FOCUS: Native/Tribal Communities, Native/Tribal Youth, Food Access, Health, Rural Communities | Amount: Up to $32,000 | Deadline: Feb. 26, 2023
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1.6KNewsWind River Reservation schools lead the way in teaching new social studies standards in Wyoming
The new standards include the “cultural heritage, history and contemporary contributions of American Indians.”
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1.3KNewsNative Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools
In Arizona alone, there were 47 federal Indian boarding schools.
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578GrantsNative youth aftercare support services grants
GRANT FOCUS: Native/Tribal Youth, Behavioral Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Sobriety, Aftercare | Amount: $600,000 | Deadline: Sept. 19, 2022
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2.7KNews‘Without language, we are nothing’: New Mexico to pay Native-language teachers equally
Today, students in New Mexico schools can study many of the eight indigenous languages of New Mexico’s 23 tribal entities. It’s an...
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1.1KNewsFirst pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning
As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis' historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches...
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1.3KNewsNew Mexico to offer equal pay to Native American teachers
New Mexico will begin to offer equal pay to dozens of Indigenous language teachers as part of a new law aimed at...
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2.1KNewsNative activists hail passage of New Mexico Indian Family Protection Act
New Mexico lawmakers have passed a bill that strengthens protections for Native American children in state care. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is...
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3.0KGuest Opinion EssayNative American Children Protected in Groundbreaking Foster Care Settlement
For decades, we have repeated and recapitulated: Our nation’s foster care system is broken. New Mexico, which receives the lowest markers of...
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1.9KNewsNew Mexico Foster Care Intends to Become ‘Trauma Responsive’ in Lawsuit Settlement
New Mexico’s already low performance in child welfare hit rock bottom on Sept. 22, 2018: Thirteen foster youth, represented by Disability Rights...
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3.1KNewsCYFD Forging Ahead With Native American Court, Kinship Care
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...
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3.5KNewsNative American Court to Run Under Bigger Concept of Family
It’s already tough sledding for New Mexico children and families in the state’s fractured foster care and child welfare systems. Those challenges...
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1.2KGrantsNative Community Development Grants
Subject: Community, Community Development, Civic Engagement, Native Youth | Deadline: May 2, 2019 | Amount: Unspecified
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3.7KGuest Opinion EssayIndian Child Welfare Act Needs to Be Supported to Help Foster Kids, Tribes
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold on Dec. 5 a ruling that would declare the Indian Child Welfare Act...
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7.3KNewsConcerns About Job Corps Safety Continue in Congress
Roughly two years after the homicides of two students prompted a congressional review of Job Corps, federal lawmakers continue to probe for...
