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  2. Contemporary Native American issues in the United States

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    Native American professors are also underrepresented; they make up less than one percent of higher education faculty. [65] There is a need for adequately trained teachers and appropriate curriculum in Native American education. [64] Western education models are not hospitable to indigenous epistemologies. [66]

  3. Native Americans and reservation inequality - Wikipedia

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    Native Americans hunting bison, a staple of the diet. The problem of poor nutrition in Native American communities has a historical narrative. The traditional Native American diet consisted wholly of lean meats, protein, fruits and vegetables and low in fat, non-processed sugars and sodium. [39] Native people also hunted and fished quite ...

  4. Federal Indian Boarding School System Intentionally Sought to ...

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    The 106-page Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report released on May 11 provides a glimpse into the deliberate intention of the federal government to disrupt the Native ...

  5. Native American policy of the Barack Obama administration

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    The U.S. Department of Education, under the direction of the Obama Administration, and Obama appointee William Mendoza, as executive director of the White House initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, [23] [24] has created policies that seek to address disparities in education that affect Native American and American Indian ...

  6. Native American reservation politics - Wikipedia

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    "Hispanics and Native Americans trail substantially behind blacks in terms of college enrollment, retention, and graduation despite the fact that they, like blacks, may benefit from Affirmative Action." A National Educational Longitudinal Survey revealed that in the late 1990s, the United States Education system served 1.4% of Natives.

  7. Meriam Report - Wikipedia

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    In the four fiscal years prior to the initiation of the study, 1922–1926, approximately 10,000 Native Americans were allotted over 3 million acres from their Reservations. In comparison, during the fiscal years 1929-1932, the 4 years immediately following the publication of 'The Problem of Indian Administration,' a little over 2,800 Native ...

  8. Enrollment in tribal language courses grows in Oklahoma as ...

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    At least 3,314 students participated in an Indigenous language program at their public school in the 2022-23 school year.

  9. American Indian outing programs - Wikipedia

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    Those in charge of the program thought this to be necessary for the survival of Native Americans in modern American culture, though many--including Native people--disagreed. [ 2 ] Richard Henry Pratt developed the first such boarding school at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879, which became a model for the government program.