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Spilyqy Tymoo, Wqrro Springs, Oregon
August 5, 2004
Grants target Indian educators
; OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -The
federal government will
spend nearly $2.5 million in
Oklahoma to recruit American
Indian teachers and administra
tors to schools with a high per
centage of Indian students.
The U.S. Education
Department's office of Indian
education awarded the grants to
the University of Oklahoma
and the Cross Cultural Educa
tion Center in Tulsa earlier last
month.
The Cross Cultural Education
Center will receive $447,168 the
first year of its $1.3 million
grant
OU will receive $399,743 in
the first year of its $1.1 million
grant. The money will be dis
persed over three years.
The Cross Cultural Education
Center will use its grant to pro
vide financial support and train
ing for Indian students major
ing in education at Northeast
ern State University in
Tahlequah, said Agnes McGec,
a project director.
The center will recruit up to
20 juniors, offering them full
tuition and assistance with li
censing fees and first-year
teaching expenses, McGce said.
The students also will be
trained to teach to the specific
learning styles that students in
poor communities in rural
northeastern Oklahoma might
use, McGce said.
"Some of these students
don't have access to Tulsa. They
barely get out of the vicinity,"
McGce said.
In exchange, participants
must agree to pursue a job
teaching in a school with a high
percentage of Indian students.
OU will use its grant to pro
vide fellowships to 30 Indian
educators to complete a 12
month master's degree program
in school administration, said
Grayson Noley, chairman of
the department of educational
leadership and policy studies.
After completing the pro
gram, they will eligible for jobs
as principals.
Nonprofit to develop Native curriculum
JUNEAU (AP)-A nonprofit
organization in Juneau plans to
develop a Native-oriented high
school curriculum with an
$850,000 federal grant.
Sealaska Heritage Institute
hopes to help Alaska Natives
pass the state's high school exit
exam, required for a diploma,
and become prepared for col
lege, said institute president
RositaWorL
"We're very much tuned to
those academic needs," she said.
"Native kids do better when
they're studying their own lan
guage and culture."
: The institute is a private non
profit founded in 1981 to ad
minister cultural and educational
programs for Sealaska Corp., the
Southeast regional Native cor
poratioa The institute intends to first
test the curriculum in Juneau
schools, then offer training for
teachers in Juneau, Sitka and
Ketchikan. Eventually, the cur
riculum could be used else
where, Worl said. The grant will
be spent over three years.
The institute will hire curricu
lum specialists to work with lo
cals knowledgeable about Native
culture.
The project would enhance
and continue the Juneau School
District's own efforts to provide
a culturally relevant curriculum,
said Superintendent Peggy
Cowan.
The district now offers
Tlingit-oricnted classrooms at
Harborview Elementary, and
holds a grant to expand the ef
fort to other schools. It offers
the Early Scholars Program at
Juneau-Douglas High School to
prepare Natives for college. The
district also has a grant to ex
tend the Native- and science
oriented Camp WATER, from
a summer program to the school
year in the middle schools.
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llugene bill, 18, is spending
the summer at the Warm
Springs boys and Girls Club,
As a member of the club line
staff, llugene helps to keep the
kids activities going throughout
the day, and he keeps an eje on
the kids, making sure no one
gets hurt.
llugene will be a senior at
Madras High School this
coming school year. His favorite
sport at school is wrestling. He
also plays some football and basket
ball. After high school, llugene wants to
travel the world. "I want to experi-
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ence new things and meet new people, "
he says. "I don 'l want to be tied down
to one spot. "
Autopsy: cause of death was stroke
Tonya June Mitchell passed
away on July 28. She was 37.
Shortly before her death,
Ms. Mitchell had been a wit
ness to a fight, according to a
statement from Warm Springs
Police. At the time there was
no indication that Ms. Mitchell
had been involved in the fight,
the police statement says.
A relative reported to police
that Ms. Mitchell had been
flown by Air Life to St Charles
Medical Center in Bend, where
she passed away on July 28.
The FBI and Warm Springs
Police conducted a joint investi
gation in the cause of Ms.
Mitchell's death.
After an autopsy was con
ducted, it was the finding of
the Oregon State Medical Ex
aminer that Ms. Mitchell died
from natural causes, that be
ing complications from a
stroke.
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