Sequoyah Schools Case Study

This was a very important report because prior to it, Native American children were being sent to boarding schools were their heritage was frowned upon. “Recommendations included building day schools in Native American communities and the reform of boarding schools for Native American children.” (Parkay, F. 2001) This report was considered a landmark one because of the issues it highlighted of the educational issues plaguing the Native American community at the

* Provide for an agency, grist mill, and schools to be located on the Great Sioux Reservation;

because people look at the BIE’s attempts at bettering the schools of tribal communities, and

In 1993, the Supreme Court decided on the case of Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District. Based on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), this case was pressed in Arizona by deaf James Zobrest and his parents who wanted a sign language interpreter, publically funded from the respondent, the Catalina Foothills School District (CFSD), to assist James while he was currently attending Salpointe Catholic High School. The arguments of this case were based on the First Amendment rights in the Constitution; the Zobrests claiming that the case was infringing on their rights from the Free Exercise Clause and the CFSD claiming that the case was unconstitutional based on the Establishment Clause (Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School

Created to promote tribal authority, revitalize native languages and sustain native cultures, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are a cornerstone in American higher education. With thirty-seven institutions that serve over 28,000 American Indian and Alaska Native students, TCUs seek to align their respective missions with community and tribal values (American Indian College Fund). Despite TCUs ambitions to sustain native culture and provide quality education for their populations, these institutions face innumerable challenges due to underfunding and a lack of intentional investment from U.S. governing bodies. Federal support for TCUs has been dreadfully insufficient in keeping up with the rapid expansion of these establishments, while poverty in Native communities greatly limits the amounts of tuition that can be collected; moreover, sustaining the will to endure in the face of structural inequalities is yet another barricade that TCU stakeholders face.

In essence, a better education can lead to better opportunities and reduce rates of poverty. Oklahoma’s state education budget continues to be slashed by officials, despite 61% of students in Oklahoma living in poverty stricken households (ChildFund, 2013). Of the 61% of students living in poverty, 26% are Indigenous (NCCP, 2018). Worse still, trade publication Education Week ranked Oklahoma 46th in the United States for education quality (“Oklahoma Earns a D-Plus”, 2018). With the education system of the entire state failing, the Cherokee Nation has taken it upon themselves to help fund education initiatives as a means to reduce poverty levels in the

We will begin by discussing the first article that was written in 1981 by Steve Murray and Luther Tweeten named, "Culture, Education, and Economic Progress and Federal Reservations" and was published in the Growth & Change academic journal. This article takes a look at the economic issues in Indian reservations across the country and explains them in a mathematical form to explain why they are generally poor and struggling communities. Two negative things about this article is one, it is not specifically written for the topic of Native American education, and two, the article is almost thirty years old now. Although this does not make the article irrelevant because it does provide factual information about the current times in which it was written, and it does extensively discuss problems and

Currently there are 72 Indian boarding schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, serving over 10,000 students in the United States. These boarding schools have not tried to understand Indian communities, culture or learning styles. American Indian students attending Indian boarding schools related that they suffer from loss of cultural identity and experience their schools as imposed systems. Conversely, a number of Native Americans believe that Indian boarding schools are better than they were 25 years ago. There is a broader recognition of diversity, more compassion for students, a greater openness to talk about problems in the Indian boarding school environments, and more intelligence and sensitivity about how to guide rather than

As an intern for the economic development advisor this summer, I will be working on a large range of projects, all with the centralized goal of joining alongside the Yakama people to improve their wellbeing. For my second category of scholarship I will be researching ways in which aid has been offered to Native American Reservations, whether that is government aid, the work of a grassroots NGO’s similar to Sacred Road, or other nonprofit organizations that attempt to counteract some of the US government’s oppression of Native people. I hope to learn from this information what methods of poverty alleviation have worked on reservations so far and what has not, and why. In this research I will spend some time focusing specifically on economic development related aid, but because Sacred Road does more than just development, and development is interconnected with all other aspects of aid, it is important to gain a more expansive range of knowledge. In writing about this topic, I will be using the spelling that the Yakama Nation uses for themselves, however in doing my research I will often switch back and forth between that spelling and the spelling of the county that it is named after, Yakima county. Different documents and therefore different perspectives come up depending on which spelling I

Various federal government policies or actions have significantly impacted the daily lives of Native Americans today. One such action is one taken by President Grant in 1865 that required all American Indian to be taken away from their homes and families and be placed in boarding schools. This action was meant to separate American Indians from their culture. However, this action has greatly impacted the climate of schools and the education system towards American Indians. Many American Indian children continue to be belittled in school as there is a cultural bias that has existed against this native community for years (Martinez, 2014). Because of this cultural bias, many Native Americans continue to drop out of schools today.

Reservation schools today are well under the quality of provincial schools. The aboriginal dropout rate is significantly higher than ours would be. This is happening because their schools aren’t as advanced as they should be. Yes, Aboriginals get a lot of money set out for them, but is it being used right? Many people are going to say it is and that they don’t need any more money, but after reading this paper your mindset will change. Aboriginal schools are underfunded, low quality, and have huge dropout rates.

Theresa and her colleagues recognized that education was the key to the future. It was becoming clear to those familiar with the fishing industry that the salmon fishery would eventually peak and become less viable as a primary source of income. Coming from a family that placed a great importance on education, Theresa understood the cultural and economic barriers facing tribal members aspiring to higher education. She felt that many of these challenges could be addressed by locating a tribal community college on the reservation. Theresa and her associates also understood that this effort would face a number of challenges in the tribe as well as some resistance from outside agencies and institutions.

Sauk Valley Community College should have a track and field team for several reasons. SVCC use to have a track and field team. Sadly, they dropped it in the nineteen seventies probably because of the expenses. Track and field is a very popular sport that many students might want to take part in middle and high school, or even at college level. Track isn’t a very expensive sport. It is one of the cheapest sports to participate in. Track and field is also very popular sport in colleges in the two hour radius from Sauk Valley Community College. Bringing track and field to Sauk will bring about 40-50 new students each year. Also, this will make Sauk become a better choice of colleges in the area, because of the distance.

Seniors! This is it! This is your last year as a Husky here at CHHS. The counselors have made this very clear that now is the time to start figuring out the next step after high school.

NEA’s Department of Indian Education (1899) produced research on how the government’s policy of isolating and assimilating the American Indian nations negatively impacted their education. Indian