Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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— House Democrats are proposing big funding boosts for a range of education programs. Appropriators today will take up legislation that would increase Education Department spending by more than 6 percent in fiscal 2020. — President Donald Trump met with the National Teacher of the Year after all, holding an unexpected meeting with Virginia's Rodney Robinson and others in the Oval Office. But two state winners of the award boycotted the event, citing Trump’s policies on immigrant and LGBTQ communities. https://www.politico.co...
Schools could get a four-day reprieve for the current school year to make up for snow emergency days called during the polar vortex in January and February. The state Senate unanimously approved a bill Tuesday to allow schools to deviate from the normal 180-day school calendar in order to make up for the four days between Jan. 29 and Feb. 2 when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer declared a state of emergency because of record frigid temperatures and snowfalls. https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/30/michigan-school-snow-day...
Four middle school girls left the cafeteria and were walking down the hallway, talking and laughing, when they say their principal at East Middle School in Binghamton, New York, stopped them. The girls — all of them 12 and either black or Latina — were taken to the health office, and without any explanation, subjected to "discriminatory, dehumanizing and unlawful strip searches," according to a lawsuit filed Monday by their families and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-girls-n-y-middle-...
ADA, Okla. – A Chickasaw U.S. military service member chose the Chickasaw Nation Veterans Lodge to be one of the ceremonial stops for his retirement flag. Brian Wallace, Senior Chief Gunner's Mate with the U.S. Coast Guard, served as school chief at the Coast Guard Class-A training center in Yorktown, Virginia. Similar to a superintendent, Wallace oversaw eight schools, which trained newer members of the Coast Guard for their specialized roles. Wallace was born and raised in Purcell. His o...
WASHINGTON – Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby announced a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau and Chickasaw Nation to help ensure Native Americans are counted accurately during the 2020 census. During an April 1 "Shape Your Future" press event here, Governor Anoatubby said the task to count all Native Americans is a priority for the Chickasaw Nation. He stressed the Chickasaw Nation will engage other tribes to provide accurate information about Native American populations. "...
From U.S. Department of Interior WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior announced today that nearly 3,000 landowners with fractional interests at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana have been sent more than $27 million in purchase offers from the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations. “As President of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, I am pleased to announce the return of the Buy-Back Program to our Reservation and the continuing efforts of consolidating trust land for Indian reservations,” said Fort Belknap Indian Commu...
Gold medal-winning Olympian Billy Mills, Lakota, hosted his fifth annual Dreamstarters closing ceremony on Tuesday night in Alexandria Virginia just outside of Washington D.C. to wrap up a four-day Dreamstarter Academy in which Native youth - who were awarded 10,000 grants to pursue their dreams - were honored and wrapped with an official Billy Mills-designed Pendleton blanket. This is the fifth year celebrating dreams and aspirations of 10 Native youth from the ages of 14-30 years-old in the...
WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today convened a legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 279, the Tribal School Federal Insurance Parity Act; legislation to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to provide parity and allow for tribally controlled grant schools to be eligible for participation in the Federal Employee Health Benefits and the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance programs. https://www.indian.senate.gov/news/press-re...
