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Students

Setting The Record Straight

Dr. Jon Quistgaard is unhappy with the way the national media has portrayed the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota Story:

August 24, 2005

Leadership & Policy

NCAA May Bow if American Indian Tribes Support Schools

Two weeks after saying schools that use American Indian nicknames, mascots or imagery to represent their athletic teams could face NCAA sanctions Story:

August 22, 2005

Sports

NCAA: University of North Carolina at Pembroke Exempt from American Indian Nickname Ban

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, a school founded to serve American Indians, is the only college in the nation exempted from a ban on using American Indian nicknames. Story:

August 8, 2005

Native Americans

Oregon State University Returns Artifacts To American Indian Tribes, Historical Society Balks

Oregon State University Returns Artifacts To American Indian Tribes, Historical Society BalksCORVALLIS, Ore. The Benton County Historical Society expressed disappointment over Oregon State University’s decision to return 900 artifacts from the Horner Museum to the Oregon tribes from which they came. The university closed the museum in 1995 and the historical society wants to reopen […]

March 23, 2005

Native Americans

Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities

Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities WASHINGTONIn collaboration with Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. Speaker of the House and founder of the Center for Health Transformation, and Peter Deutsch, former U.S. Representative from Florida, the National Minority Health Month Foundation (NMHMF) announced the formation of the Congressional Leadership Alliance to       Eliminate Health Disparities. “This […]

February 23, 2005

Leadership & Policy

University of Oregon Opens American Indian Longhouse on Campus

University of Oregon Opens American Indian Longhouse on CampusEUGENE, Ore. Nearly 20 years after it was proposed, the University of Oregon has opened an American Indian longhouse, a community center traditional to many Native American peoples in the Pacific Northwest and around the country.The 3,000-square-foot building stands as a symbol of two generations of effort, […]

February 9, 2005

Native Americans

Harvard Releases Report on American Indian Socio-Economic Change From 1990-2000

Harvard Releases Report on American Indian Socio-Economic Change From 1990-2000CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Identified for decades as the poorest group in the United States, American Indians living on reservations made substantial gains, both economically and socially, during the final decade of the 20th century. A new report released by The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at […]

January 26, 2005

Native Americans

New Investments Expand, Strengthen National Network of Early College High Schools

New Investments Expand, Strengthen National Network of Early College High SchoolsSEATTLE The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in December announced  $29.6 million in grants to eight organizations to expand the early college high school network to more than 25 states. Early college high schools provide traditionally underserved students with a rigorous, college-level curriculum and the […]

December 29, 2004

African-American

Alternatives to Greek-Letter Organizations Warrant Second Look

Alternatives to Greek-Letter Organizations Warrant Second Look By Marc C. DavidBecause of the discriminatory practices and lack of appeal of many predominantly White Greek-letter organizations, students of color sought the development of their own. Alpha Phi Alpha, Rho Psi, MALIK Sigma Psi, Lambda Theta Phi, and Alpha Pi Omega set the stage for later African […]

December 15, 2004

Native Americans

Leading The Way

Leading The WayCelebrating 25 years in 2005, Philadelphia-based program seeks innovative ways to expand outreach effort for talented minority students in business and other disciplinesBy Ronald RoachAs a teen-ager from a working-class family in South Side Chicago, Charles Crockett had dreams of attending law school and becoming a corporate lawyer. In the summer of 1982 prior […]

December 15, 2004

Native Americans

New England Tribal College Would Be The First to Serve Eastern Tribes

New England Tribal College Would Be The First to Serve Eastern TribesHARTFORD, Conn. The modern-day reawakening of American Indian groups across New England could spawn something never seen on the East Coast: a college dedicated to the region’s estimated 40,000 people with native roots. A tribal college would offer a connecting point for New England’s […]

December 15, 2004

African-American

‘In the Front Yard of the U.S. Capitol’

‘In the Front Yard of the U.S. Capitol’U.S. Rep. and legendary civil rights activist John Lewis, D-Ga., has long pushed for an African American history museum to be constructed on the National Mall in Washington. However, many officials say that the new National Museum of the American Indian occupies the last site on the Mall. […]

December 1, 2004