NOW THEREFOR BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association calls upon states to consider the adoption of legislation modeled after the “Indian Education for All” statute of Montana in consultation with American Indian tribes and people of the state.
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association will reestablish the NIEA/NCAI Tribal Leaders Education Task Force and that NIEA will collaborate with NCAI to ensure that the Task Force is reestablished; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association affirms its’ continued support for the establishment of an Assistant Secretary of Indian Education Office within the Department of Education; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association will coordinate, to the extent possible, with federal agencies to gain information, reports, work plans and outcomes regarding the implementation and impact of Executive order 13592; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association Board and Executive Director are directed to continue the tradition of the NIEA Legislative Summit and raise the necessary resources to execute the organization of the NIEA Legislative Summit; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association supports a BIE immersion Demonstration Project in the amount of $3 million annually and directs both the NIEA Board and Executive Director to pursue this appropriations request with the Office of Management and Budget, White House Council on Native American Affairs, White House Senior Policy Advisors, and Interior Appropriations leaders in both chambers of Congress; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association calls upon the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to review conflicts between different sections within NCLB relative to NALA 1990 and of the rights of Native Americans to retain and further develop their languages and cultures while participating in federally supported education; and
Read MoreNOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, NIEA proclaims this Declaration of Indigenous Youth an affirmation of the identities of indigenous peoples, who shall strive to live by the values and principles embedded within their cultures, languages, and traditions; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association Board members will form a working group comprised of NIEA board members and immersion stakeholders to draft a proposal for White House consideration addressing a comprehensive White House Native language policy statement; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association honors and recognizes the remarkable lifetime work, efforts, and accomplishments of Kaagoowu (Dr. William Demmert) and respectfully request that the Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act be renamed to include Dr. William Demmert’s name in the long title of the bill; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association directs the Board and Executive Director to request a congressional investigation into the Bureau of Indian Education restructuring and Blueprint for Reform to ascertain if the Secretarial Order creates a statutory conflict and to document Department of the Interior proposed offsets to pay for the restructuring; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Indian Education Association recognizes the outstanding work of Suzanne Harjo to educate America about the history of the Redsk*ns’ name and negative stereotypes associated with the Redsk*ns’ name; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA does hereby call for meaningful consultation and requests immediate cooperation with grantees as this new agency APR directive is pursued in order to ensure all pertinent constituency groups’ issues are addressed; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA does hereby support the Maori proposal to establish an International Indigenous Nations Graduate University at Haskell Indian Nations University but requests the need for consultation with the Haskell Advisory Board throughout the process; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA does hereby call for the Department of Education (ED) to specifically include Native students within NCLB Title I, Part C – Education of Migratory Children – to ensure Native students have the same access to resources as those other migratory populations and are not penalized by disparities in curriculum, graduation requirements, or state academic content and achievement standards when changing schools; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA does hereby call for the establishment of a Tribal/Federal Task Force (Task Force) comprised of tribal leaders and federal agency representatives to study the funding constraints BIE schools face as well as investigate appropriate measures to be taken in order to address such concerns culminated into a final report; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the National Indian Education Association urges the Obama Administration in conjunction with the United States Congress to take action to ensure that BIE funding is made available to all American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, as well as tribal organizations, on the same terms it is made available in the rest of the United States; and
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA joins the NJOMA, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the United South and Eastern Tribes (USET), and the Tribal Education Departments National Association (TEDNA) in support of efforts to use U.S. census data for a student count for the JOM program and for funding level determinations; and
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