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From NIEA Newsletter:
US Senate on Indian Affairs Listening Session
Date: March 3, 2010
Time: 2:00-5:00 pm
Location: Dirksen Office Building, Room 628
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is conducting a listening session to discuss Indian Country’s priorities and recommendations for Indian education, particularly as it relates to the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and its [...]

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NIEA State of Native Education Address 
Vice President Teresa Makuakāne-Drechsel
February 8, 2010
Aloha Pumehana Kākou, 
On behalf of the Board of Directors for the National Indian Education Association, I welcome you to the 5th State of Native Education Address. My name is Teresa Haunani Makuakāne-Drechsel. I am Native Hawaiian, and have the honor of serving as this year’s [...]

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For immediate release:
Lillian Sparks joins other prominent American Indian appointments in the Obama Administration including; Interior Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk, White House Senior Policy Adviser for Native American Affairs Kim Teehee, White House Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Jodi Gillette, and Indian Health Service Director Yvette Roubideaux.
As some of you might [...]

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From NIEA www.niea.org :
Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation’s oldest and largest children and families’ literacy nonprofit organization, has named Shoshone-Bannock Early Childhood Program in Idaho as one of its Programs of the Month award recipients for November, 2009.
“Shoshone-Bannock Early Childhood Program has done a fantastic job of inspiring young children to discover the joy [...]

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Six New Members Join NIEA Board of Directors
http://www.niea.org/media/gallery_detail.php?id=360
Washington, DC – Skaweniio Barnes (Mohawk Nation, New Haven, Connecticut), Dr. Teresa Makuakane Drechsel (Native Hawaiian, Honolulu, Hawai`i), Denny Hurtado (Skokomish Indian Tribe, Olympia, Washington State), Kevin Killer (Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, South Dakota) Mary Jane Oatman Wak-Wak (Nez Perce, Boise, Idaho) and Patricia Whitefoot (Yakama/Dine’, Toppenish, Washington [...]

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