The Oklahoma City School Board has rejected for the second time an attempt to establish a charter school to improve graduation rates for American Indian students. The next step is to approach the Oklahoma state board of education.
According to the US Dept. of Agriculture, in South Dakota, American Indians own only 924 of the 3,218 farms and ranches that exist on tribal lands. Lakota Funds, a nonprofit community development financial institution, is working to change that.
This venerable publication was shut down last year but has now reopened under the auspices of the National Congress of American Indians.
The San Francisco arts commission, after getting approval from the city’s historic preservation committee, voted unanimously to remove a statue that had depicted the degradation and genocide of American Indians. The statue has been prominently displayed on city land since 1894.
A new report finds absurdly low community foundation grantmaking to American Indian groups. How can it be that all community foundation grants in North Dakota to American Indian groups between 2012 and 2014 totaled $25,000?
Though Harvard owes a significant debt to indigenous Americans, its programs and focus on Native studies currently leave something to be desired, according to students and faculty.
Despite the Violence Against Women Act and the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, there is currently no system in place to collect comprehensive data on the number of missing and murdered Native women, which by itself makes Native American women more vulnerable to extreme violence.
Less than two weeks after a new exhibit on cultural appropriation of American Indians opened at the National Museum of the American Indian, Major League Baseball acts to announce the phase-out of Cleveland’s “Chief Wahoo” logo and image.
While public health in American Indian communities is improving, enormous challenges persist. In response, American Indians are employing multiple strategies, ranging from efforts to reinforce cultural resiliency to boosting the number of American Indian health workers.
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian examines the history of representation of American Indians in the US in an exhibit simply titled “Americans.”
