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Last Update:
December 18, 2013
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American Indians for Higher Education
The American Indian Recruitment program was established at SDSU to promote success in academics in the American Indian community.
Monday, July 15, 2013
By Hallie Jacobs
In 1993, Dwight Lomayesva ('99), a Hopi Tribal member and San Diego State University student, noticed a shortage of American Indians in higher education.
In an effort to increase American Indian enrollment, he (along with others) partnered with the SDSU Dept. of American Indian Studies to promote higher education and success in the American Indian community and American Indian Recruitment was born.
Twenty years later, the program that caters to young members of San Diego American Indian tribes is still going strong.
Since the program's inception, more than 1,500 American Indian students have received assistance, including supplemental educational instruction through tutoring, mentoring and various activities designed to help them achieve success.
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SDSU headed to bowl after all
With San Diego State officials resigned to being snubbed by football bowls, Athletic Director Jim Sterk got a surprising phone call Sunday afternoon.
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl wanted them.
They’ll play Buffalo (8-4) on Dec. 21 in Boise.
“I’m excited, relieved and all those good things,” Sterk said at Viejas Arena during the first half of the Aztecs’ basketball game against Washington.
Sterk admitted that he had no contact with Boise bowl representatives “over the last few days,” and most folks assumed that 6-6 San Jose State was headed there given the connections with its athletic director. Gene Bleymaier served as Boise State athletic director for 30 years and, according to his bio, was “the driving force” behind the creation of what was then called the Humanitarian Bowl.
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20 Years of Community Service
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Secret Bids Guide Hopi Indians’ Spirits Home
By TOM MASHBERG
Published: December 16, 2013
The auction in Paris was set to move briskly, at about two items a minute; the room was hot and crowded, buzzing with reporters.
More than 100 American Indian artifacts were about to go on sale at the Drouot auction house, including 24 pieces, resembling masks, that are held sacred by the Hopi of Arizona. The tribe, United States officials and others had tried unsuccessfully to block the sale in a French court, arguing that the items were religious objects that had been stolen many years ago.
Now the Annenberg Foundation decided to get involved from its offices in Los Angeles. It hoped to buy all of the Hopi artifacts, plus three more sought by the San Carlos Apaches, at the Dec. 9 sale and return them to the tribes. To prevent prices from rising, the foundation kept its plan a secret, even from the Hopis, in part to protect the tribe from potential disappointment. Given the nine-hour time difference, the foundation put together a team that could work well into the night, bidding by phone in the auction in France.
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Interior plans first American Indian land buy-backs this month
December 17, 2013 | By Zach Rausnitz
By the end of 2013, the Interior Department plans to make the first offers to buy back American Indian land from individuals in an effort to help tribes consolidate ownership.
Reservation land was divided up among individual tribal members in the late 1800s, and when they died, their land was then divided up among their heirs--but not physically, just in terms of shared ownership. Over time, some parcels of land have become severely fractionated, split among hundreds or even thousands of people. A majority of the owners must agree in order to do anything with the land, and any income from the land is split so many ways that individual owners often make less than what it costs the federal government to process payments. As part of the Cobell Settlement, the federal government agreed to provide a $1.9 billion fund to buy back fractionated land from tribal members and hold it in trust for the tribe to put it to use how it sees fit.
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Judge tosses tribe's case against its lawyers
BY JAY WEAVER
The Miami HeraldDecember 16, 2013
MIAMI — MIAMI _ Two prominent Miami attorneys have won a decisive victory against their former client, the Miccosukee Tribe, in an acrimonious malpractice lawsuit tossed out by a state judge.
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Thornton has dismissed the tribe's malpractice case against law partners Guy Lewis and Michael Tein, saying the onetime federal prosecutors committed no civil wrongdoing while collecting more than $10 million in fees from the tribe for various legal services.
In a decision issued Sunday, one month before a scheduled trial, Thornton wrote: "There is no evidence of fraud. There is no evidence of any damages resulting from any purported bad act.
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Charter School paves way for Indian students
By Karin Eagle
Native Sun News Staff Writer
ALBUQUERQUE — For many Native American students coming out of high school, both on and off reservations, the possibility of college opportunities is viewed as highly unlikely. Many programs have been established to counter this situation with varying degrees of success.
Blending cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as traditional and modern approaches, a charter school in New Mexico is taking Native American students into a new era of college preparation.
The Native American Community Academy (NACA) is a tuition-free public charter school serving students in middle and high school. Originally located in the Southeast Heights of Albuquerque, the school has relocated to 1000 Indian School Road NW.
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for your tremendous support of our Native
Students and their success through education.
ANA is pleased to anounce the inclusion of AIR's Pride for Life Project within "Fiscal Year 2008 Report to Congress on Impact and Effectiveness of Administration for Native American Projects" and the inclusion of AIR's Voices of Tomorrow Project within "Fiscal Year 2009 Report to Congress on Impact and Effectiveness of Administration for Native American Projects"
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USD laments missed opportunity in loss
By Kirk Kenney, U-T 12:54 P.M.DEC. 16, 2013
UC Santa Barbara junior forward Alan Williams has been all but unstoppable this season for the Gauchos.
USD found a way to take Williams out of the game — literally — although it didn’t benefit the Toreros the way they hoped in a 72-61 loss to UCSB on Sunday afternoon at Jenny Craig Pavilion.
Williams, averaging 26.8 points and 11 rebounds, committed two fouls in the first three minutes, went to the bench and wasn’t seen on the floor again until the halftime shoot-around.
His first-half exit came before the Gauchos (5-3) had even scored. That gave the Toreros (8-4) an opportunity, but they weren’t able to take advantage of it.
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