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Excerpt from:  An Education Saved my Life  by David A Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv unegv Waya)   I attended my dad’s funeral in March 19...

In earlier posts here: http://nacwr.blogspot.com/2012/10/mitakuye-oyasin-all-my-relations-we-are_31.html  and here:  http://nacwr.blogspot.c...

“An education saved my life.” These were the words I spoke to a class room of Native American students attending Haskell Indian Nations Un...

As you may know American Indians/Native Alaskans have some of the highest college drop rates in the US. We are trying to understand why ...

Coincidence: A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged What many people think might be a sim...

Mitakuye Oyasin is a Lakota saying that translates closely to All my relations or We are all related. We are all connected in some kind of w...

Today, Monday, October 8, 2012 is Indigenous People's Day. It is celebrated as columbus day, by many, but to us, we celebrate differentl...

With the New York Times only allowing ten free online views of their articles per month, I am very selective when clicking on a news artic...

Native American (NA) students have the highest dropout rate of any high school or college student population.  I can attest to this as a...

Senior research scientist Grace Barnes, PhD, principal investigator on the grant "Ecological and Sociocultural Influences on Native Ame...