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Risky pregnancies, driven by CVD risk factors, remain common for Native women
American Indian and Alaska Native communities are some of the most underserved minoritized groups in the United States, and ...
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Oscar-nominated documentary exposes horrifying truths about Indian residential schools
The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada in 2021 was just the catalyst for “Sugarcane.” Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, the filmmakers behind ...
Growing up, these Indigenous creators didn't see themselves on kids' TV. So they made their own
Three Indigenous creators share how they’re reclaiming representation in children’s media, and why it's vital to pass down ...
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Authentic Native experiences await in Anchorage
The Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage celebrates 25 years of educating visitors about Native cultures, with recent ...
Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas. Their story waits to be told.
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...
The Indian Express13d
Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of deadly strike on boarding school in Kursk region
Ukraine and Russia traded blame for a deadly missile strike on Saturday that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school situated in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Kyiv ...
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Opinion: Data doesn’t show that Alaska charter schools are more effective than neighborhood schools
The governor has claimed in several newspaper pieces that Alaska charter schools are more effective than neighborhood schools, and that the charters should be modeled more widely. He’d seen ...
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Gov. Dunleavy unveils education legislation that would boost Alaska homeschooling and charter schools, setting up a battle with lawmakers
Charter schools in Alaska currently serve 4% of public school students. Lawmakers in the House and Senate majorities have questioned the idea of offering funding and policy boosts that serve only ...
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Aurora museum opens ‘Away From Home’ exhibit on American Indian boarding schools
Aurora University's Schingoethe Center Museum opened “Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories,” an exhibition to March 14, with a reception Tuesday, Jan. 28, including displays ...
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Alaska Lawmakers Introduce Bill for Major Boost in School Funding
I believe education has to be one of those.” Jenna Wright, president of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp., highlighted the economic costs of Alaska’s current school issues. “I have heard from ...
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Murals from now-shuttered Native boarding school on display at Utah State museum
The history of the Brigham City school, opened from 1950 to 1984, "is unique to Utah and Native American boarding school history, and it deserves to be shared and not forgotten," said Katie Lee ...
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Utah’s Intermountain Indian School was full of murals. Now they are finally going on display.
Logan • When Canadian artist Sheila Nadimi first happened upon the abandoned buildings of the former Intermountain Indian School ... her as a descendant of boarding school survivors.