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President Donald Trump took office with a promise to help the Lumbee Tribe with its quest for federal recognition. What happens next?
The Trump administration just scrapped an agreement aimed at addressing disparities involving Native students in South Dakota.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds an oversight hearing on Native programs at the Department of Education.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds an oversight hearing on Native programs at the Department of Education.
Indian educators and advocates are testifying about the impacts of closing the Department of Education.
The vast majority of Native students attend schools funded through the Department of Education, the cabinet agency that President Donald Trump wants to shut down.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking a look at programs at the Department of Education that serve Native students.
Dismantling the Department of Education could severely impact the government’s ability to meet its legal and moral commitments to Tribal Nations and their citizens, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium said.
“One of the federal government’s core trust and treaty responsibilities to American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives is to provide education,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the vice chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
“This is not just an administrative change – it’s an attack on the fundamental right of Native students to a quality education that reflects their identity, history, and sovereignty,” said NCAI President Mark Macarro.
“Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them,” President Donald Trump said.
“We are sending education back to the states where it so rightly belongs,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
Programs that help Native students succeed are already shutting down thanks to the Donald Trump administration.
The vast majority of Native students attend public schools. What happens if the Department of Education is eliminated?
Tribes are trying to remind the United States of its trust and treaty obligations amid an anti-DEI effort that has led to casualties in Indian Country.
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation committed to language preservation (December 30, 2024)
With every word of Cherokee spoken or written, we reclaim another piece of what it means to be Cherokee. 
The U.S. Senate considers S.5355, the National Advisory Council on Indian Education Improvement Act, on December 3, 2024.
Arizona Mirror: President Biden apologizes for Indian boarding school era (November 1, 2024)
“It was long overdue,” said Crystalyne Curley, Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (September 9, 2024)
There’s still time to register for the #NAFOAFall24 conference! 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (September 3, 2024)
Get all the latest news on tribal finance and economic development from NAFOA. 
Is South Dakota peculiar, or is the state driving a trend in anti-Indian policies, sentiments and behaviors?
Defects with the federal application for financial aid have left countless students still unsure if they can afford college in the fall.
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action, several states are rushing to rid their higher education institutions of recruitment and inclusion programs that benefit Native students.
The Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into the treatment of Native athletes at public schools in North Dakota.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona addresses the National Congress of American Indians on February 14, 2024.
The Department of Education has awarded more than $10 million in grants to support Native languages, Native teachers and Native students.
Congress set to help schools with Impact Aid funding amid COVID-19 (January 17, 2022)
A bipartisan bill that will help school districts with Indian Country students preserve their Impact Aid funding is set to clear the 117th Congress. 
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation works to preserve our language (December 13, 2021)
In our mission to save the Cherokee language, we cannot and we will not fail. 
White House Tribal Nations Summit – Day One – November 15, 2021 (November 15, 2021)
The Joe Biden administration opens the White House Tribal Nations Summit on November 15, 2021. 
Biden administration announces Native language initiative (November 15, 2021)
The U.S. Departments of the Interior, Education and Health and Human Services launched a new initiative to preserve, protect, and promote the rights and freedom of Native Americans to use, practice, and develop Native languages. 
White House Fact Sheet: Building A New Era of Nation-to-Nation Engagement (November 15, 2021)
From the missing and murdered crisis to sacred sites, the Biden administration is touting its Indian Country agenda as it hosts the White House Tribal Nations Summit. 
Aaron Payment: Biden administration updates Indian education initiative (October 15, 2021)
This past week was significant with the first presidential proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day but the news unfortunately eclipsed another major policy announcement from President Joe Biden. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (August 23, 2021)
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The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is meeting to advance Native language legislation.
The leader of the Department of Education toured the Tohono O’odham Community College and met with tribal leaders and students.
President Biden submits first budget request in age of COVID-19 (April 9, 2021)
President Joe Biden has submitted his first budget to Congress, showing increases in investments for Indian Country.
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