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Education is the main purpose and beneficiary of the act, as individual states, territories, schools, and school districts wanted to be compensated for Indian students who did not contribute tax money mixed in with the general population. Education is also the provision that most notably takes advantage of the act.
AIHEC provides leadership and influences public policy on American Indian and Alaska Native higher education issues through advocacy, research, and programmatic initiatives; promotes and strengthens Indigenous languages, cultures, communities, lands, and tribal nations; and through its unique position, serves member institutions and emerging TCUs.
The American Indian Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on the indigenous peoples of North and South America. It is published by the University of Nebraska Press and was established in 1974. The editor-in-chief is Lindsey Claire Smith (Oklahoma State University).
The Journal of Indigenous Studies (French: La Revue des Études Indigènes) was a multilingual, biannual, peer-reviewed academic journal.It was established in 1989 and was sponsored by the Gabriel Dumont Institute, [1] a Métis-directed educational and cultural entity in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada), affiliated with the University of Regina.
Starna has written on approaches in archeology and produced technical reports on Native American history and culture for Indian tribes and museums. [5] In 1986 he received a Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Senior Fellowship to study land claims in New York, [ 6 ] which involved the loss of Iroquois lands during the eighteenth and ...
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Native American professors are also underrepresented; they make up less than one percent of higher education faculty. [65] There is a need for adequately trained teachers and appropriate curriculum in Native American education. [64] Western education models are not hospitable to indigenous epistemologies. [66]
The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), since 1972, has been the collective spirit and voice of our nation’s Tribal Colleges and Universities, advocating on behalf of individual institutions of higher education that are defined and controlled by their respective tribal nations.