Kickapoo Nation School is a K-12 tribal school in
Powhattan, Kansas
Powhattan is a city in Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 69.
History
Powhattan was founded about 1877. The city was named for the father of Pocahontas who resided in Jamestown, Virgin ...
, United States. It is affiliated with the
Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to American Indians and A ...
(BIE). It is the sole tribal school in the state.
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Kickapoo Indian Reservation
The Kickapoo people (Kickapoo: ''Kiikaapoa'' or ''Kiikaapoi''; es, Kikapú) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American and Indigenous Mexican tribe, originating in the region south of the Great Lakes. Today, three federally recognized Kickap ...
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'' Washington Times'' (via Associated Press) The school serves, in addition to
Kickapoo
Kickapoo may refer to:
People
* Kickapoo people, a Native American nation
** Kickapoo language, spoken by that people
** Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, a federally recognized tribe of Kickapoo people
** Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, a federally recog ...
people, the
Potawotami tribe and the
Sac and Fox tribe.
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History
In 1981 it moved into its current facility, which was formerly used by another school.
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In 2004 Brent Wasko of the '' St. Joseph News-Press'' reported that area residents did not positively perceive the school, and that the school community was working to fight that perception.][
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Operations
The Kansas Department of Education considers Kickapoo School a "nonpublic" school.[ The ]National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance ...
(NCES) counts it as a public school.[
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Curriculum
It has a bilingual English- Kickapoo language program, the only such program in Kansas for an indigenous American language.[ The school made efforts to preserve the language.][
According to the '' Topeka Capital-Journal'', by 2006 there was positive attention on the school's BIE-funded Family and Child Education (FACE) program which has home-based education for both parents and children.][
the school did not have funds to have laptops for their students compared to public schools that received more funding. However beginning in fall 2006 it planned to establish a virtual learning program to make up for subject matters in which it lacks on-site teachers.][
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Student body
In 2004 it had 91 students, all of them being Native American.[ In 2016 it had 58 students. Many students come from the Kickapoo reservation and a number reside in Topeka.][
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Staff
In 2016 it had eight teachers.[
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Athletics
because of relatively low enrollment numbers, athletic programs often struggled to find enough students.[ In 2004 the track team had seven members.][ By 2016 it was making an attempt to form a track team but it had no athletic teams at all at the moment.][
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References
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Kickapoo Nation School
Native American K-12 schools
Public K-12 schools in the United States
Public elementary schools in Kansas
Public middle schools in Kansas
Public high schools in Kansas
Education in Brown County, Kansas
Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas
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