By Elizaeth Stuart
Salt Lake City, Utah (AP)
In a windbreaker and skinny jeans, Annie Fregoso was just another Springville High School student absentmindedly twirling the wires of her iPod headphones around her finger as she waited recently for reading time to start at Nebo’s Native American tutor lab.
Even though she’s one of only 265 Native American students in the district, Fregoso, a 15-year-old Cheyenne River Sioux who plans to attend college when she graduates, doesn’t feel her heritage sets her apart from or behind her classmates. “I’m just like everyone else,” she said. But knowing and accepting her heritage may be, educators say, the key to Fregoso’s success.
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By Jessie L. Bonner
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Moscow, Idaho (AP)
Angelique EagleWoman remembers the moment when she decided she wanted to devote her life to law.
She was 8 and watching the television in her family’s living room in 1978 when news...07-27-2009, 03:36 PM -
I read in the newspaper the other day about a woman who where teaching about native american culture. But not history - more like new age (if we can call it culture). Anyway, she's quarter ndn (grandfather) but born and raised in Sweden and when teaching she dresses up in buckskin clothes and uses...11-13-2006, 05:41 PM
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Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico (AP)
The first Native American woman to be elected as a state district judge in the United States, who was also widely beloved for her compassion toward people dealing with domestic abuse cases, has died.
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by S.J. Wilson
Flagstaff, Arizona (NFIC)
Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan spent an afternoon and evening during November at Northern Arizona University as part of its Native American Heritage Month celebration.
In sharing her poetry and stories of her life,...12-20-2007, 05:12 PM