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Native Americans

Board President Wants Indian Rep on UND Search Committee

BISMARCK N.D. After first rebuffing the idea, the president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education says he will now recommend adding an American Indian to the panel that will recruit a new president for the University of North Dakota.

June 28, 2007

Native Americans

Tribal members receiving an education thanks to gambling

MESA Ariz. One of the payoffs of gambling on the Gila River Indian Community is education paid for by the tribe.

June 25, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Request For American Indian Presence In UND Search Denied

GRAND FORKS, N.D. The president of the North Dakota Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.

June 25, 2007

Leadership & Policy

UND search committee hopes to finish early next year

The president of the state Board of Higher Education says the membership of a 16-member committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president will not be changed, despite a request that an American Indian be added.

June 21, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Tribal College Honors American Indian Veterans

KYLE S.D. A monument honoring more than 1,800 American Indian military veterans will be dedicated Saturday six miles southwest of Kyle at the administrative headquarters of Oglala Lakota College.

June 20, 2007

Native Americans

Search For New UND President Needs American Indian Voice

BISMARCK, N.D. The president of United Tribes Technical College says the committee searching for a new University of North Dakota president should include an American Indian.

June 17, 2007

Native Americans

Bringing the Global Market to Native Lands

At the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a group of college entrepreneurs are preparing to enter the global market by launching an American Indian news service — and without ever having to step foot off the reservation.

May 23, 2007

Native Americans

And North Dakota Makes Four

It seems that the long battle for state support of tribal colleges is beginning to slowly pay off for American Indian leaders and supporters.

May 13, 2007

Native Americans

We Want to be Included, Say Women Tribal Leaders

ATLANTA Four women from American Indian tribes came together in a panel organized by Spelman College on Wednesday to ask Americans not to forget about them in conversations about diversity and race.

May 10, 2007

Students

“Rez Ball” Gains NCAA Certification Thanks to Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI)

If all goes according to plan, the term “Rez Ball” may soon become part of the mainstream lexicon. The Native American Basketball Invitational, founded in 2003, is helping to bring Indian Country’s unique variation of basketball to the outside world. Long played on Indian reservations, rez ball has finally been certified by the NCAA.

April 9, 2007

Native Americans

‘On The Rez’

The American Indian College Fund’s campaign brings donors to tribal colleges for first-person peek at what their money can do.

April 4, 2007

Native Americans

Critics Blast Cherokee Nation For Ousting Freedmen From Tribal Rolls

Congressional Black Caucus asks U.S. Dept. of the Interior to investigate “validity.”

April 4, 2007