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Guest Opinion. In 2018, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act was reauthorized to provide more than $1 billion in federal funding and was overseen by the Department of Education (DoE). Each year, nearly $18 million of this funding provides career and technical education programs for American Indian and Alaska Native students through the Native American Career and Technical Education Program (NACTEP). This competitive grant is open to federally recognized Indian Tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, and eligible Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded schools.
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Opinion. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into the State of New York’s directive to remove Native American imagery from public schools.
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Guest Opinion. Stewardship of the earth is at the center of Cherokee culture. It comes out of the understanding that every decision we make shapes the world our children and grandchildren will inherit. True stewardship is a year-round and lifelong commitment, becoming more important in the face of unacceptable environmental degradation and human-driven climate change.
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Opinion. The United States commemorated the first Earth Day 55 years ago on April 22, 1970, as a means to galvanize Americans around protecting an increasingly polluted environment. Earth Day was the brainchild of the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.), who recruited activist Denis Hayes to help organize nationwide teach-ins and demonstrations on college campuses.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Opinion. In late May 2021, news broke from British Columbia of the discovery of 215 remains of innocent school children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The news of the mass grave caught the attention of the national and international media.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. Water is life. No one understood this better than former Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller and Charlie Soap. Together, they devoted themselves to the most essential work of all: connecting Cherokee families to clean, reliable water. Their leadership brought dignity, health, and opportunity to our communities in the 1980s.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. The Dire Wolf is said to have become extinct about 10,000 years ago. It was a true North American carnivore, unlike the Eurasian wolf that we have today. Its prey was bison, horses, mastadons, camels, sloths and other extinct animals, which led to its own extinction.
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Guest Opinion. Even as Native elders experience higher rates of poverty than the national average, Native people receive Social Security benefits at a lower rate than the general population, with even wider gaps among Natives with disabilities.
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Guest Opinion. When I first tried to pursue solar energy development after the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, I learned a lot.
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Guest Opinion. The modern Cherokee Nation is at the forefront of exploring new ideas and the latest technologies to solve 21st-century problems. At the same time, we do not forget what brought us here. We hold on to the truths that have kept us going through good times and bad.
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- By Bryan Warner