INDIAN AFFAIRS

The goal of Title VII Indian Education is to address the educational and cultural needs of Indian students and improve elementary and secondary school programs that serve Indian students.  The programs assist Indian students to meet the same challenging state and academic content and student academic achievement standards used for all students.

Scottsbluff’s Indian Education program supports closing the achievement gap for Indian students.  American Indians have always had a strong belief in education.  Traditional “knowledge and skills needed to survive in the natural world was transferred from one generation to the next, and the phrase, ‘no child left behind,’ was not an empty slogan . . . An important facet of this educational system, which reflected the worldview of hundreds of Indian Nations, was that everything was integrated; nothing was segregated.  There was no division between the individual and the community . . .”

“Let us put our minds together to see what lives we make for our children” – Sitting Bull