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The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), headquartered in the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., and formerly known as the Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP), is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. It is responsible for the line direction and management of all BIE ...
Between 1880 and 1886, the Bureau of Indian Affairs opened more than one hundred American Indian boarding schools modeled after Carlisle across the United States, primarily on reservations. [ 15 ] [ 12 ] Congress passed a series of laws designed to encourage the development of outing programs in those new schools.
In 1973, the first six American Indian tribally controlled colleges established the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) to provide a support network as they worked to influence federal policies on American Indian higher education. Today, AIHEC has grown to 37 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States.
In most public schools, the language teachers and lesson plans come from tribal nations, said Jackie White, the state agency’s program director of American Indian education.
The rise of pan-Indian activism, tribal nations' continuing complaints about the schools, and studies in the late 1960s and mid-1970s (such as the Kennedy Report of 1969 and the National Study of American Indian Education) led to passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. This emphasized authorizing tribes to ...
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.
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe; Navajo Technical University, Crownpoint; Northern New Mexico College, Española (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) San Juan College, Farmington (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, Albuquerque
Many of its members, were also members of an American Indian community wide education committee. [7] These committees formed a new Native led nonprofit, named the Native American Committee, founded in 1970. In the early 1970s, a number of additional initiatives related to Native American education and self-determination began in Chicago.