Join NIEA in Protecting Native Students from Cultural Discrimination

The National Indian Education Association is actively working with partners in Arizona, North Dakota, and Minnesota to advance Native Education for All (NEFA). 

The NEFA project is a collaboration between tribes, state education offices, educators, and Native education advocates to advance NEFA legislation in the respective states and implement NEFA in the classroom.

  • In Arizona NIEA is working with the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. (ITCA), the Arizona Indian Education Association, and state Office of Indian Education to develop tribally approved content and legislative policy recommendations.

  • In North Dakota the state legislature passed Senate Bill 2304 (SB 2304) which requires Native history and social studies curriculum be taught to students as a requirement to graduate from high school. The SB 2304 Working Group, comprised of former tribal leaders, educators, Native education advocates, and the North Dakota Historical Society, have partnered with NIEA to ensure implementation of the bill.

  • In Minnesota NIEA is working with Tribal Nations Education Committee, Minnesota Indian Education Association, We Are Still Here Minnesota, the State Office of American Indian Education, and Native educators and advocates to plan for advocacy to pass Indigenous Education for All.

 
 

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