government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. History “may cause them to not see the investment in a public school education as a good use of their time,” said Dallas Pettigrew, director of Oklahoma ...
Maria Tallchief was the first-ever Native American ballerina. She was born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief on January 24, 1925, in Fairfax, Oklahoma, to an Osage tribe member. Tallchief eventually relocated to Los Angeles, where she studied ballet. In the 1940s, she danced with the Ballet Russe ...
Scorsese opens Killers of the Flower Moon with a rite of mourning and accounting for the Osage, who have been forced from territory to territory with the advance of the colonising project before coming to a reservation in Oklahoma that seems unfruitful, but which they’ve decided to defend as...
living among American Indians while studying and documenting their culture. Fletcher was a leader in the movement to bring Native Americans into the mainstream of white society, but some of her ideas proved to be detrimental to the Indians. Early Years Alice Cunningham ...
A convenience sample (N = 44) of students ranging in age from 16-18 was recruited from two rural southwestern Oklahoma high schools. The students were assigned to groups based on their school of enrollment. Measurement tools included the Native Self-Reliance Questionnaire, the Global Assessment ...
Available to students to study nutrition, physical education or culinary arts in the state of California Chahta Foundation scholarships for Choctaw students Be a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Amount: Up to $40,000/year Cherokee Nation Scholarships ...
The study initially involved 1,396 informed and consenting Native American youths from 10 reservations in North and South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, and Oklahoma. Youths were third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students in 27 tribal and public schools that served socioeconomically comparable Native Americ...
Northeastern State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, U.S. It comprises six colleges covering arts and letters; business and industry; social and behavioral sciences; education; mathematics, science,
LeAnne Howe is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her experiences growing up on a reservation and listening to her grandmother’s stories, she once said in a short film, set her on a path towards a career as a playwright, a poet, and a novelist. Speaking of the challenges th...
Across the continent, Indigenous peoples are methodically reasserting control over their land, laws, and how they live.