A new Iñupiat dictionary app provides a quick and easy to look up words in the North Slope Iñupiaq language, the language of the Iñupiat people of the North Slope Borough in northern Alaska. App features include a searchable list…
April 12, 2012
Inupiat Dictionary App Now Available
Hispanic Foundation Names José Calderón President
On April 11, the Hispanic Federation Board of Directors unanimously voted to name José Calderón President of HF according to a Federation press release. Calderón began immediately. “We are very pleased with the final decision by the Board of Directors…
April 11, 2012
American Indian Rights Activist Walks On
Agnes Dill, a renowned educator and lifelong proponent of American Indian rights passed away March 17. She was 98. Edging close to a century of life, Dill filled many of those years working for causes close to her heart. In…
Smithsonian Institution’s Upcoming Exhibit Includes American Indians, First Major Exhibit With Spanish Translation
The Associated Press reports that a new exhibit opening on Thursday at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. will chronicle U.S. history from American Indians first encounters with Europeans right up to the 2008 presidential election. The exhibit, entitled “American…
April 9, 2012
Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary Makes ALA’s Most-Challenged List Again
Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has made it onto the American Library Association’s (ALA) list of most-challenged books once again, though it has slipped from number two to number five since last year. Cited for…
A New Attack on Repatriation
Who owns the past? That’s the headline of an editorial in the April copy of Scientific American. The question is occasioned by regulations that the U.S. Department of the Interior added to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act…
April 8, 2012
Make Your Indian Education Donation Count
If the American Indian College Fund (AICF) can raise $50,000 by April 30 through mailed donations, USA Funds has greed to match that amount dollar for dollar. In addition, USA Funds has agreed to match online donations $2 for every…
April 5, 2012
UANativeNet Provides Training in Tribal Governance and Law
Whether you want to learn a little or a lot about topics of interest to indigenous cultures, you’ll get any answers you seek on UANativeNet, a locus of learning formerly known as Arizona NativeNet. Begun in 2006 and re-launched under…
Trees Bent By American Indians Being Identified and Preserved
“If they could talk, the stories they could tell,” Steve Houser, an arborist and founding member of the Dallas Historic Tree Coalition, told the Associated Press. The trees, he said, “were like an early road map” for American Indians. The trees…
April 4, 2012
Attempt to Lift Affirmative Action Ban Rejected
When voter-approved Proposition 209 amended California’s constitution in November 1996 it prohibited colleges from granting “preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.” That proposition was reaffirmed Monday, April 2 when…
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