Native American Education & Scholarships is your hub for funding, schools, and teaching resources—past, present, and future. From the legacy of boarding schools to modern scholarship programs and homeschool lesson plans, this category gathers everything in one place so students, families, and educators can move forward with clarity.
Historical context and modern reckoning: government and missionary systems, survivor accounts, cultural impact on language and identity, and current truth-and-healing efforts.
Profiles of TCUs created by and for Native communities: admissions, academic programs, language preservation, and student supports.
Financial aid opportunities from tribal governments, foundations, states, and federal programs—plus eligibility tips and deadlines.
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Research grants, cultural preservation fellowships, and support for graduate study.
Native-focused programs in public, charter, and community schools, including immersion initiatives and after-school supports.
Native students face unique barriers—from funding gaps to language loss. This section centralizes scholarships, school options, and teaching materials so learners and educators can find the right path without getting lost in the weeds.
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As the nation’s oldest, largest, and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native advocacy organization, NCAI has long held a clear position against derogatory and harmful stereotypes of Native people—including sports mascots—in media and popular culture. In 1968 NCAI launched a…
The Pipestone Indian Boarding School opened in 1893 as a sister school to Flandreau, fifteen miles to the east of Flandreau, but located within Minnesota.
As the banished Minnesota Dakota people gathered in their new home in South Dakota, they expressed an interest in the establishment of a school. This desire was also corroborated by the non-Indian residents of Flandreau, South Dakota, who were equally…
Moor's Charity School was founded in 1754 in Lebanon, Connecticut, by Puritan, Calvinist minister Eleazar Wheelock to provide education for Native Americans who desired to be missionaries to the native tribes.
The Tohono O'odham children were required to attend Indian boarding schools, designed to teach them the English language and assimilate them to the mainstream European-American ways. According to historian David Leighton, of the Arizona Daily Star newspaper, the boarding school the Tohono O'odham attended was the Tucson Indian School.
The Wind River Tribal College is at Fort Washakie, Wyoming on the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. It was established in 1997.