WSPA

Hagood Mill to host Native American Celebration, offers Cherokee language lessons

Pickens County, S.C. (WSPA) – Hagood Mill Historical Site in Pickens County received a grant to teach the Cherokee Language and you can get your first taste of these lessons at a festival at the Mill ...
Education Week

A Native Community Revitalized a Language. Here’s How a School District Carries It On

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...
EdSource

Community college students can take classes in their native language under a new law

Hoping to entice more non-English speakers to enroll in community college, California is making it easier for those students to take courses in their native language. Currently, students in California ...
Business Wire

Language-Learning Platform "Native Camp" Launches Unlimited Online Japanese Lessons With One-Month Free Trial

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Native Camp, Inc., the provider of a language-learning platform called "Native Camp," has introduced "Native Camp Japanese," a service providing unlimited Japanese lessons. In ...
Argus Leader

States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement

When the debate over teaching race-related concepts in public schools reached Kimberly Tilsen-Brave Heart’s home state of South Dakota, she decided she couldn’t in good conscience send her youngest ...
Yahoo

Native languages should be spoken and preserved, tribes say after Trump's 'English' order

As Native language programs flourish in classrooms, Indian centers, tribal meeting rooms and online, President Donald Trump issued an executive order over the weekend declaring English would be the ...

‘We can do it’: A rural school near two Native American reservations nearly doubles its attendance

The school borders the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations, and serves about 50 students from kindergarten through fifth ...
News on 6

Broken Arrow students learn Native American heritage through delicious hands-on lessons

Students across Broken Arrow Public Schools are celebrating Native American Heritage Month, and one sixth-grade class at Centennial Middle School is getting hands-on with history. The classroom turned ...
insider.si.edu

"To remain an Indian" : lessons in democracy from a century of Native American education / K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Teresa L. McCarty

Overview of the Book -- Where Do We Stand? -- 1 Choice and Self-Determination: Central Lessons from American Indian Education -- Schools as ʺCivilizingʺ and Homogenizing Institutions -- Safety Zone ...
The Nation

States Were Adding Lessons About Native American History—Then Came the Anti-CRT Movement

Educators worry new efforts to teach Native American studies could be undermined by legislation to restrict discussion of race and ethnicity. Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, speaks during the ...
The Nation

States Were Adding Lessons About Native American History—Then Came the Anti-CRT Movement

Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, February 25, 2022. (Tristan Wheelock / Bloomberg via Getty Images) When ...