Native American education

How can teachers better support Native students? And how can they more accurately teach about Native history and contemporary cultures to all students? Those questions are at the center of the annual Native American Education Conference, which is back for its fifteenth year. It’ll take place at Central Wyoming College in Riverton on August 6 and 7.

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, community members are invited to join in a celebration of Native American academic excellence and a culture presentation titled “Good Medicine” at the University of Wyoming on November 3.

The Native American Education, Research, and Cultural Center (NAERCC) at the University of Wyoming won the National Indigenous Student Support Program Award for 2023.

The Indian Education for All Act was passed in 2017 and the state gave school districts three years to implement changes to the curriculum. Taylar Stagner with Wyoming Public Radio reports on how different school districts are learning about treaty rights.

Starting this fall, schools across the state should have been including social studies curriculum about Native American history, government, culture and contemporary contributions.

Some Indigenous histories are preserved in stories, songs, ceremonies and elder testimony that are passed down orally - rather than with written records...

Central Wyoming College (CWC) faculty member Tarissa Spoonhunter is working to make Wyoming's only American Indian Studies associate degree into a…

Since August of 2019, there has been a 200 percent increase in teachers, administrators, and the public utilizing a free web service called Everyday…

This story is part of a two-part series on how schools across the state are handling the switch to adapted learning. This week, all 48 Wyoming school…

Eight U.S. states and at least 129 cities recognize Indigenous People's Day on the second Monday of October. Many Native students at the University of…