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Congress has approved $13.482 million in federal funding for the Institute of American Indian Arts for fiscal year 2026, rejecting a Trump administration proposal that would have eliminated the school’s federal appropriation.
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The William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Tribal Leadership Council on Tuesday announced a new partnership to launch an executive education certification focused on Tribal governance, business strategy and organizational leadership.
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More students graduated in 2025 from schools in tribal communities that are operated under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, according to new federal data released Thursday.
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Native Vote 2026. Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), a candidate for governor of New Mexico, on Thursday announced her education policy platform and received the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico, one of the state’s largest labor unions.
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On Dec. 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education said it will begin administrative wage garnishment for borrowers with defaulted federal student loans in early 2026, marking the first resumption of such collections since the pandemic-era pause that began in 2020.
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It’s a scene straight from a Dickens novel: a family sits around the table on Christmas Day with an empty chair amongst them and a somber air. Except this isn’t the Victorian classic, it’s real life for far too many Native families and no well-intentioned spirits to save the day. The epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in the United States that has existed for years continues unabated. And while Native students deal with the same end of semester pressures and holiday stresses as other students, they’re more likely to also be living in a state of fear or mourning for a relative who may never make it home.
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In wake of Tuesday's announcement that the Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, the American Indian College Fund is warning that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer more than a dozen federal education programs to other agencies could jeopardize Native students’ access to critical services and undermine the federal government’s trust and treaty obligations.
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Little Priest Tribal College has received a $5 million gift from the MacKenzie Scott Foundation (Yield Giving), the largest donation in the institution’s history since its founding in 1996.
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SEATTLE — On Tuesday, the Trump administration released its plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The plan includes provisions to transfer most American Indian and Alaska Native programs to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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