Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Grants Compliance Assistant RED LAKE NATION HEAD START Open: April 13, 2021 Closing: May 3, 2021 @ 12:00 p.m. Primary Function: The Grants Compliance Assistant will work with the Red Lake Head Start Director to support successful grant administration by means of facilitating procedural compliance on awarded grants. The Grant Compliance Assistant assists the Red Lake Nation Head Start Director to understand the compliance obligations of the grant awards and their binding...
For the past six years, Shari Daniels has tried to be the person she wishes she had in her life as a student. Daniels grew up on the Fort Peck Reservation, home to about 6,000 members of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, in northeast Montana. Now 48, she struggles to remember the name of even one of her teachers, and she has no memory of making a personal connection with any of them. Raised by her grandmother, Daniels said she can’t remember ever seeing a report card sent home. “They always treated us like we were another number, esp...
Dive Brief: • Changes in school start times have a "significant effect" on the amount of sleep and reported grade point averages of students, according to a working paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The researchers examined eight districts in Minnesota, four of which transitioned to later start times between 2016 and 2019, affecting 38,019 students in grades 5, 8, 9 and 11. • Findings suggest districts that moved to later start times saw students' GPAs increase by an average of 0.1...
Tatum Sallee has become a front-line hero during the COVID-19 pandemic. Education personnel like Sallee have put themselves in harm's way to make sure students have access to a safe and effective learning environment. Every day, teachers, school administrators and others in the profession of education strive to provide our children with the best possible education during these difficult times, whether that be from instruction in a traditional classroom setting, or distance learning through...
Native Americans remain at the top of the CDC's list of most at-risk groups for contracting, hospitalized, and dying from COVID-19. However, there's also significant good news wherein certain federally recognized tribes viewed as a sovereign government is conducting some of the most successful coronavirus vaccination campaigns in the U.S. As a result, vaccination rates on Indian reservations far outpace the U.S. in general, and Native Americans in cities appear to be falling through the cracks....
HOUSTON, TX (April 13, 2021) – Watering Seeds Organization (WSO), a non-profit sports rehabilitation and wellness organization dedicated to empowering Wounded Warriors announced today plans for its first-ever "Ball For The Cause" charity flag football game from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 24 at the Houston Texans YMCA. This all-inclusive sports event will feature a flag football game, plus a wheelchair football game featuring military veterans taking on former NFL players and other p...
When the Covid-19 pandemic began to unfold and mask mandates were put in place, some researchers predicted an "environmental disaster" that could "last generations." Improperly discarded single-use personal protective equipment (PPE), such as disposable masks and latex gloves, could harm wildlife and exacerbate plastic pollution, Marie Fazio reported for the New York Times last summer. Now, researchers have published a new report in the journal Animal Biology that offers a first look into how...
The Chickasaw Nation continues to offer COVID-19 vaccines to everyone, regardless of tribal citizenship employment or state residency in its aggressive pursuit of putting an end to the pandemic. Anyone may schedule an appointment for a drive-thru vaccine in Ada or at one of the Chickasaw Nation satellite health clinics in Purcell, Ardmore or Tishomingo. To schedule, visit COVIDVaccine.Chickasaw.net. "We are pleased to do our part to help put an end to this pandemic," said Chickasaw Nation...
