http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education RSS Feed for ICT - Living - Education en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65808277.html GALLUP, N.M. – Daniel Pedro knew when he was a sophomore at Santa Fe Indian School that he wanted to be an anthropologist. He also knew that as a Zuni, he would not be able to touch human remains – a common task for physical anthropologists. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65807802.html LEWISBURG, Pa. – Along the shores of the Susquehanna River in upper Appalachia, a group of Moravians from Central Europe formed an unlikely alliance with the Iroquois Indian tribes. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65980317.html Norma-Chaé Isaac is a woman on her way. Just 18, and with her senior year of high school still to go, Isaac was halfway through a five-week college-prep stint at Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts when she talked to Indian Country Today. She was wearing a pair of lavender and silver beaded earrings she made when we met in a reception room at the school. The setting and the earrings are part of Isaac’s story. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65807187.html BOZEMAN, Mont. – Dion Killsback has been a good example for a long time, but the 31-year-old attorney now living in Albuquerque, N.M. said that’s because he had the world’s best mentor – his mom. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65763722.html Lexie LaMere, a teenage member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, was at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last summer, passing out campaign literature and buttons. Then, she eagerly watched President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January. And later that month, she became one of the few Native Americans to graduate from the Senate Page Program. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65279627.html The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla. have entered a unique and important partnership. They have created a program that helps students explore historical and contemporary factors that have shaped today’s Cherokee Nation. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/66417977.html LAWRENCE, Kan. – Linda Sue Warner had big ambitions when she arrived in 2007 as president of Haskell Indian Nation University, the only four-year college operated by the federal government for American Indians. Now she wonders whether those ambitions could cost her the job. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65806092.html PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia – With the help of Coast Tsimshian elders and Order of Canada recipient and ethnobotanist Dr. Nancy Turner, students enrolled in an ethnobotany course put their new knowledge into practice in a moving cultural exhibit in August. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65055517.html Erin Cook knows where she came from and where she’s going. At least, she knows where she’s going for the next year. After that, the future opens up to myriad possibilities, and the energetic, ambitious 22-year-old Mohawk citizen is confident that she’s prepared to meet whatever challenges lie ahead. And she is dedicated to being a role model and mentor to younger members of her community of Akwesasne, a Mohawk territory on the border of Northern New York and Canada. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/education/65054857.html For American Indians wanting to quit smoking, the demonizing of tobacco can come at a cultural and spiritual cost.