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Marty Indian School is a K-12 tribal boarding school in
Marty, South Dakota. It is affiliated with the
Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). It is on the
Yankton Indian Reservation
The Yankton Indian Reservation is the homeland of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of the Dakota tribe.
The reservation occupies the easternmost 60 percent of Charles Mix County in southeastern South Dakota, United States and abuts the Missouri River a ...
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The
Yankton Sioux Tribe
The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is a federally recognized tribe of Yankton Western Dakota people, located in South Dakota. Their Dakota name is Ihaƞktoƞwaƞ Dakota Oyate, meaning "People of the End Village" which comes from the pe ...
owns the facilities and directly manages the school.
It takes boarding students for grades 7–12. It has separate dormitories for boys and girls.
History
In 1987 a former executive assistant at the school, Lewis B. Dillon, pleaded guilty to embezzling money from the school.
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In November 2018, ...
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Timothy Stathis became the principal in May 2017.
[ Stathis had implemented a bonus program to pay teachers higher pay if their students had higher scores. According to Stathis this caused opposition against him. A sit-in against his policies occurred on November 15, 2017. The school gave Stathis notice of his firing on December 1, 2017.] His contract was scheduled to end in June 2018.[
Stathis, who later began work in California,][ filed a lawsuit against the school for wrongful removal in the South Dakota courts. Bruce Anderson, the judge of the first circuit court, ruled the case should be dismissed as Native American tribes are sovereign from the state government, Stathis filed an appeal to the ]South Dakota Supreme Court
The South Dakota Supreme Court is the highest court in the state of South Dakota. It is composed of a chief justice and four associate justices appointed by the governor. One justice is selected from each of five geographic appointment districts ...
with his lawyer arguing that tribal sovereignty should be done away with.[ The South Dakota Supreme Court also ruled that tribes had sovereignty. Stathis filed a new lawsuit in federal court.][
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Marty Indian School
Public K-12 schools in the United States
Public middle schools in South Dakota
Public high schools in South Dakota
Public boarding schools in the United States
Boarding schools in South Dakota
Charles Mix County, South Dakota
Native American boarding schools
Native American history of South Dakota
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