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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

Native Leaders Protest Closure of UC-Berkeley’s Artifacts Restoration Unit

JUNEAU, Alaska Groups in Alaska are criticizing a California university’s decision to eliminate the unit that restores American Indian artifacts to their original owners.

July 29, 2007

Students

UA digs into Cuban American Indian history

TUSCALOOSA Ala. What might Cuba’s native culture looked like before the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s?

July 28, 2007

Students

Getting to Know: Denny McAuliffe

Denny McAuliffe realized early on that traditional college recruiting wasn’t going to bring more American Indians to journalism school. As a result, “We don’t recruit,” he says. “We go to them.”

July 25, 2007

Native Americans

Recommendation backs Cherokee opposition to federal review

MUSKOGEE Okla. A federal official has recommended that a Cherokee Nation vote to remove federal oversight from the tribe’s constitution and amendments be approved.

July 22, 2007

Native Americans

R.I. loses lawsuit casting doubt on Indian land trusts

PROVIDENCE R.I. Rhode Island authorities lost a lawsuit Friday disputing the federal government’s ability to take land into trust for American Indian tribes, a case Indian rights groups fear could undermine tribal land across the country.

July 22, 2007

Native Americans

Virginia festival to showcase 15 American Indian tribes

HAMPTON Va. Powhatan Red Cloud-Owen occasionally runs into people including other American Indians who are surprised to learn there are still Indian tribes in Virginia.

July 22, 2007

Native Americans

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.

July 17, 2007

Native Americans

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.

July 11, 2007

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.

July 2, 2007

Native Americans

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.

June 29, 2007

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.

June 29, 2007