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The 31 tribal colleges of 1994 are represented as a system by the single membership of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). The AIHEC has its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia for the benefits of ready access to the federal government in Washington, D.C. None of its member schools are located in Virginia.
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) was an extension agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), part of the executive branch of the federal government. The 1994 Department Reorganization Act, passed by Congress, created CSREES by combining the former Cooperative State Research Service and the ...
In 1992, as tribal college librarians in the region learned of this successful annual workshop, TCLI widened participation to include tribal college librarians from North Dakota and South Dakota, and in 1993 to include the state of Washington. In 1994, TCLI received a grant from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) to expand ...
The organization offers technical assistance to its member colleges and develops institutions, and leads efforts to promote the Tribal College Movement. In 1989, AIHEC established the American Indian College Fund (AICF) to raise scholarship funds for American Indian students at qualified tribal colleges and universities.
Blume, Joanna M. (1994). Grasslands—The Forgotten Resource: The Cultural Ecology Of The Central California Grasslands (Thesis). Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara University. "Chukchansi Gold Casino & Resort". "Chukchansi Yokuts Revitalization Project" (PDF). California State University, Fresno. "Scholarship Information". California State ...
Logo for the centennial of land-grant universities. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [1] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [2]
In California, the federal government established such forms of education as the reservation day schools and American Indian boarding schools. [56] Three of the twenty-five off-reservation Indian boarding schools were in California, [9] and ten schools total. [10] New students were customarily bathed in kerosene and their hair was cut upon ...
The Big Pine Band of Owens Valley Paiute Shoshone Indians of the Big Pine Reservation are a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha Indians in California. The Big Pine Reservation is located 18 miles (29 km) from Bishop, at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. The tribal headquarters is in Big Pine, California. [1]