THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA honors and recognizes the lifetime work, efforts and accomplishments of one truly good man dedicated to improving and preserving the education opportunities for the American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiians students.
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, NIEA does hereby urge the U.S. Congress to reauthorize and fund the Native American Languages Preservation Act as an investment in the Cultural and Language Revitalization goals of the tribes throughout Indian Country.
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA strongly opposes the negative affect on Impact Aid that will result if sequestration, as created by the Budget Control Act of 2011, is triggered; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA supports adding language to support a doctoral program within the USDOE Office of Indian Education Indian Professional Development Grants; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the NIEA and the National Johnson-O’Malley Association supports the increase of JOM program funding at the level of $36 million dollars and requests that the US Congress and the US Senate mandate the $36 million dollars and that future appropriations be increased by a prescribed formula based on the JOM student count, and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Tribes of the GPTCA call upon the Obama Administration and the Congress of the United States to cease this unfounded reorganization which targets only the services provided to the Tribes of North and South Dakota, cease efforts to approve a MOU with the Department of Education prior to justifying the rejection of every recommendation of the Great Plains Tribes without any explanation or rationale, and begin the process of engaging in the statutorily required government – to-government consultation with tribal nations of the Great Plains in the next 30 days from this resolution ; and
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