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Apr. 27—The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday extended tribal sovereign immunity to a tribal consortium, overruling a decision it made 20 years ago that refused to take a similar step. In simple ...
Jabbara said the scholarship scams can be so effective because they play into people’s anxiety of whether students can afford their dream school or if parents can pay for their child’s education.
Since the first tribal college was established in 1968, the number of tribal colleges and universities has grown to 37 in the United States in 2016. According to the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, TCUs are chartered by their respective tribal governments, including the ten tribes within the largest reservations in the United ...
Cobell v. Salazar (previously Cobell v.Kempthorne and Cobell v.Norton and Cobell v.Babbitt) is a class-action lawsuit brought by Elouise Cobell and other Native American representatives in 1996 against two departments of the United States government: the Department of Interior and the Department of the Treasury for mismanagement of Indian trust funds.
Bowhead whale skull in front of Iḷisaġvik College's main building in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are a category of higher education, minority-serving institutions in the United States defined in the Higher Education Act of 1965. Each qualifies for funding under the Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities ...
Rhone Baumgartner and Kameron Hartvigson, employees of Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, were among the 10 people who died in the Bering Air flight crash this week.
Since 1996, there have been eight federally recognized scholarship scam cases in. More than 175,000 known victims of scholarship fraud exist in the U.S. -- and the Federal Trade Commission wants ...
Morris "Morrie" Thompson (September 11, 1939 – January 31, 2000) was an Alaska Native leader, American businessman and political appointee working on matters related to Alaska Natives. [1] Thompson was best known as the official in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the U.S. state of Alaska during the 1970s, and later as head of Doyon ...