Center for Educational Technology in Indian America Four Directions has received support from the Technology Innovation Challenge program, U.S. Department of Education. It is administered by the Pueblo of Laguna Department of Education.

AIHEC The collective spirit and voice of our nation’s Tribal Colleges and Universities The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is a unique—and uniquely American Indian—organization. It was founded in 1972 by the presidents of the nation’s first six Tribal Colleges, as an informal collaboration among member colleges. Today, AIHEC has grown to represent 34 colleges in the United States and one Canadian institution. Unlike most professional associations, it is governed jointly by ...

The Education of Native Americans Mary Crow Dog, author of LAKOTA WOMAN, tells of BIA agents barging into the homes of the Sioux Indians and dragging children away from their families in order to assimilate them into "white society." She described the taking of those children to the boarding schools as "kidnapping." At the boarding schools, the children were forced to cut their hair, kept away from their families, sometimes were told their families were dead or didn t want them anymore ...