News and Headlines

• The American Indian College Funds receives scholarship monies from Target and the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company

• Sault Ste Marie Tribe has put together handout on 2012 Summer Opportunities for students. 
   
• Wall map available.  The U.S. Census Bureau has the 2010 Census map showing the American Indian and Alaska Native areas. 
   
• Employment Opportunity.  The American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeastern Michigan, Inc., is seeking a Youth Program Assistant. 
   
• Employment Opportunity.   The American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeastern Michigan, Inc., is seeking a Sacred Bundle Program Coordinator. 
   
• The University of North Dakota receives grant, from the Administration on Aging, dedicated to the prevention of Native American elder abuse.  
  
   
• Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Science Fiction Writing Contest $1000 Prize.  Science Fiction writing contest for Native, First Nations, Indigenous, and Aboriginal students enrolled in accredited university, college, or high school.  Indigenous Nations Studies, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.
   
• National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is seeking high school level young women to apply for the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.  Application deadline is October 31, 2011.
   

• Michigan State University American Indian Studies Program. 
  
   

• The Veterans History Project was created in 2000 by Congress as a national documentation program of the American Folklife Center to record, preserve and make accessible the first-hand remembrances of American wartime veterans from World War I through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. 
   
• American Indian Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   

• Teacher Training Guides in Support of Land Based Curriculum Released
  The Tribal Education Departments National Assembly (TEDNA) and the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) are pleased to announce the ILTF's land base curriculum, Lessons of Our Land and the supporting teacher implementation guides recently developed by TEDNA and Reinhardt & Associates. Grants are available from ILTF to implement the curriculum in your community, school or organization.
   

• The Government of Canada takes a significant step towards launching the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
   

• 2011 Native American Indigenous Games in Milwaukee, Wisc.
   

• NMU Student Cory Fountaine published in issue of Tribal College Journal.