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The rise of pan-Indian activism, tribal nations' continuing complaints about the schools, and studies in the late 1960s and mid-1970s (such as the Kennedy Report of 1969 and the National Study of American Indian Education) led to passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. This emphasized authorizing tribes to ...
The Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo)says the former United States policies were "heartbreaking and undeniable." [ 1] Absentee Shawnee Boarding School, near Shawnee, Indian Territory, open 1893–99 [ 2][ 3] Albuquerque Indian School, Albuquerque, New Mexico [ 4] Anadarko Boarding School, Anadarko, Oklahoma, open 1911–33 [ 5]
Between 1879 and 1918, over 10,000 Native American students from 140 tribes attended Carlisle Indian Industrial School. [4] Lieutenant Pratt and Southern Plains veterans of the Red River War at Fort Marion in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1875; several of these veterans later attended Carlisle Industrial School Richard Henry Pratt with a young student
Tribal colleges and universities ( TCUs) are a category of higher education, minority-serving institutions in the United States defined in the Higher Education Act of 1965. Each qualifies for funding under the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) or the Navajo Community College Act (25 U ...
The founding members were Australia, Hawai'i, Alaska, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium of the United States, Canada, the Wänanga of Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Saamiland (North Norway). [72] The stated aims of WINHEC include the provision of an international forum for Indigenous peoples to pursue common goals through higher ...
The Bureau of Indian Education ( BIE ), headquartered in the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., and formerly known as the Office of Indian Education Programs ( OIEP ), is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. It is responsible for the line direction and management of all BIE ...
Estelle Reel (1862 - August 2, 1959) was an educator and the first woman elected to Wyoming public office as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1895. [1] She was appointed as the national Superintendent of Indian Schools by President William McKinley in 1898, becoming the first woman to fill a federal appointment requiring Senate ...
Education for Extinction is an exhaustive history of assimilation era American Indian education, particularly its boarding schools. [1] Adams contends that boarding schools were the federal government's key means for addressing its American Indian issues, and that the schools left a "psychological and cultural mark" on Indian students even ...