Join us on the latest ODEI Podcast! Today our guest speaker is Erica Moore, the Vice President for Indigenous Institutional Transformation at American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
American Indian Higher Education Consortium: https://www.aihec.org/
What is the AIHEC?
"Through AIHEC, Tribal Colleges nurtured a common vision and learned to see themselves as a national movement. Their work-research, advocacy and lobbying-was done through volunteerism and came almost exclusively from the presidents, community members, and other tribal and local leaders. Today, AIHEC has grown to represent 37 colleges in the United States and is the lifeline of these Tribal Colleges. Ford, Carnegie, and Donner Foundations offered initial start-up funds in 1973 to establish an AIHEC office in Denver, CO. The first president of AIHEC was Gerald One Feather, followed by Lionel Bordeaux. The Rockefeller Foundation provided AIHEC’s first leadership grant via the American Association of College and Junior Colleges which provided interns at Sinte Gleska College (Rosebud, SD) and Navajo Community College (Tsaile, AZ). AIHEC’s first 5-year service goals included curriculum, research & data, accreditation agency, institutional development, and human services. In 1974, funding development for member colleges began with initial funding through the House Interior appropriations committee."
AIHEC Mission Statement:
"AIHEC is the collective spirit and unifying voice of our nation’s Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). AIHEC provides leadership and influences public policy on American Indian higher education issues through advocacy, research, and program initiatives; promotes and strengthens indigenous languages, cultures, communities, and tribal nations; and through its unique position, serves member institutions and emerging TCUs."
South Dakota Department of Education
"Before the South Dakota Department of Education released a draft of new social studies standards last week, department officials took out more than a dozen references to education on the Oceti Sakowin."
Matzen, Morgan. “'Political football' or 'mountain out of a molehill'? South Dakota officials clash over Indigenous education standards” USA Today, 21, August 2021, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/08/12/south-dakota-education-social-studies-native-american-history/8096093002/.
Indigenous Boarding School History
"Us Indian Boarding School History," National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition,https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/#:~:text=There%20were%20more%20than%20523,they%20spoke%20their%20Native%20languages.
"Chapter 3: Boarding Schools." National Museum of the American Indian, https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/code-talkers/boarding-schools/
