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In the early 1970s, a number of additional initiatives related to Native American education and self-determination began in Chicago. These included Little Big Horn High School established in 1971 and O-Wai-Ya-Wa Elementary School established in 1973, both operating as part of Chicago Public Schools in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. [8]
The Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Its 12 members are located in the Midwestern United States.
The American Indian Center (AIC) of Chicago is the oldest urban American Indian center in the United States. [1] It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunities for Native American peoples. For many years, it was located Uptown and is now in the Albany Park, Chicago community area. [2] [3]
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The 2024–25 Indian State leagues season represents the fifth tier of the Indian football league system, a series of state-level football tournaments played as qualifiers to determine teams for the 2025–26 I-League 3.
6–8 (also referred to as middle school) Springman Middle School Archived 2024-03-13 at the Wayback Machine. Springman Middle School was named for John Springman, District 34 Superintendent from 1948 to 1970. [2] Springman Middle School was built on September 7, 1954 and was selected as a National Blue Ribbon School 1987-88 and again in 2008 ...
Sulphur Springs Indian School, Pontotoc County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory [79] open 1896–98 [2] Theodore Roosevelt Indian Boarding School, founded in 1923 in buildings of the U.S. Army's closed Fort Apache, Arizona, as of 2016 still in operation as a tribal school [80] Thomas Indian School, near Irving, New York
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.