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The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), headquartered in the
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, and formerly known as the Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP), is a division of the
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under the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. It is responsible for the line direction and management of all BIE education functions, including the formation of policies and procedures, the supervision of all program activities, and the approval of the expenditure of funds appropriated for BIE education functions. The BIE school system has 184
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and secondary schools and dormitories located on 63 reservations in 23 states, including seven off-reservation
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, and 122 schools directly controlled by tribes and tribal school boards under contracts or grants with the BIE. The bureau also funds 66 residential programs for students at 52 boarding schools and at 14 dormitories housing those attending nearby tribal or public schools. It is one of two U.S. federal government school systems, along with the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). In the area of post-secondary education, the BIE provides support to 24 tribal colleges and universities across the U.S. serving over 25,000 students. It directly operates two institutions of higher learning:
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(SIPI) near
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. Additionally, the BIE operates higher education scholarship programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Alden Woods of ''
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History

Circa 1990 the
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began the process of taking BIA schools in their territory into tribal control. They managed this under authorization provided by legislation in 1975, which allowed tribes to contract with the BIA/BIE to manage and operate their own schools. Prior to August 29, 2006, it was known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP).


Operations

The headquarters is in the
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. The federal government funds schools for Native Americans under the treaties it established for reservations and trust lands. In the early years, the government authorized religious missions to establish schools and churches on reservations. At the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Congress authorized the government to establish numerous
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for a more concerted program of assimilation of Native American children. These were established at both the elementary and high school levels. As Indian reservations cannot levy taxes, local school taxes cannot be used to fund Native American schools. Alden Woods of the ''
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'' described the BIE as having the characteristics of both a state education agency and a school district, with its supervision and funding of tribally controlled/grant schools making it the former and its direct operation of BIE schools making it the latter. By the beginning of the 21st century, education expenses of the BIE represented 35% of the BIA budget. But studies since the 1969
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have shown that the schools have been underfunded. Despite the education responsibility, much of the BIA staff are specialists in land management rather than education. Since the 1970s, school boards have been elected on reservations to oversee BIE schools, as in the
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. In 2015 the BIE spent about $15,000 per student in the schools it operated, 56% above the per-student average cost for a public school student in the United States. The BIE schools were ranked as among the most costly to operate in the United States. The predecessor agency OEIP had say only in operations related to instruction, while other BIA agencies had controlled other aspects, such as hiring and other employee issues, and construction and renovation of schools, and related infrastructure such as roads. Severns wrote that the various sources of authority made school accountability difficult. A 2015 editorial of the ''
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'' noted that schools in the BIE network were underfunded while schools in the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), the federal military dependent school network, were well funded.


Student body

the BIE-funded/grant/direct schools in total had 46,000 students, meaning they educated about 8% of the Native American students in the United States. - Alternate link: Members of some tribes have moved to cities, and many states have increased coverage of reservation and tribal lands through their public school districts. about 90% of Native American students attended public schools operated by local school districts, rather than federally funded or operated schools. the BIE schools are located in many isolated areas with some of the lowest incomes in the United States. Maggie Severns of ''
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'' wrote in 2015 that "Students often come from difficult backgrounds". In 1978, 47,000 Native American K-12 students (17 of the total%) attended schools directly operated by the BIA and 2,500 (1%) attended tribal schools and/or other schools that contracted with the BIA.


Employees

Circa 2015 the BIE had 4,500 employees. In November 2015 the BIE had 140 empty teaching slots. The agency had difficulty with teacher retention, especially as many schools are located in isolated areas.


Academic performance and reputation

BIA/BIE schools have been criticized for decades for poor academic performance, and for the failure to establish metrics that allow performance to be measured. In 1969 the graduation rate was circa 59%. Circa 1970 the overall dropout rate of BIA schools was 100% higher than the U.S. dropout average. Citing this statistic, that year
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criticized BIA schools. The 1969 report by the Select Subcommittee of the
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in 1969 (known as the Kennedy Report, as it was headed by
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prior to his assassination) also criticized BIA schools. In 1988 a Department of Interior report blamed all levels of leadership for substandard test scores. In 2001 the Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote "The academic achievement of many BIA students as measured by their performance on standardized tests and other measures is far below the performance of students in public schools. BIA students also score considerably below national averages on college admissions tests."
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made attempts to improve BIE schools. In 2015 Maggie Severns of ''
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'' wrote that BIE students "have some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the country". In the 2018-2019 school year, the percentage of BIE students passing their schools' standardized examinations was about 10% for mathematics and 15% for the English language. In 2011 BIE students scored better on examinations than students at
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, but every other large urban school district outperformed students of BIE schools. In 2015 the graduation rate was 53%. In the 2017-2018 school year, the graduation rate was 64%, but in 2018-2019 the graduation rate had declined to 59%. In 2015 the average United States graduation rate was 81%. The graduation rate for Native American and Alaska Native students enrolled at school district-operated public schools was 67%. From circa 2017 to 2020, the BIE did not follow the terms of the
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. As of 2020 the BIE does not have a consistent testing system for all schools, nor does it provide the public academic outcomes information that traditional public schools are required to publish under state laws.


Schools

BIE network schools are often located in rural, isolated areas where alternative options for schooling are not feasible. there were 180 schools in the BIE network. In 1987 the BIA supported 58 tribal schools and directly operated 17 boarding schools, 17 day schools, and 14 dormitories housing students enrolled in public schools operated by local school districts.


Directly operated

the BIE operates about 33% of the schools in its system. A listing of schools directly operated by the Bureau of Indian Education:National Directory June 2015

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Center: ** Flandreau Indian Boarding School (
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) ** Isleta Elementary School ( Albuquerque, New Mexico) ** Jemez Day School (
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Riverside Indian School Riverside Indian School (RIS) is a Bureau of Indian Education-operated boarding school in unincorporated Caddo County, Oklahoma, with an Anadarko address, for grades 4-12. It first opened in 1871 in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Riverside Indian School, ...
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) ** San Felipe Pueblo Elementary School (
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) ** San Ildefonso Day School ( Santa Fe, New Mexico) ** Sky City Community School ( Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico) ** Taos Day School (
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) ** T'siya Day School (
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Center: ** Blackfeet Dormitory (
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) ** Dunseith Day School (
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) ** Ojibwa Indian School (Belcourt, North Dakota) ** Pine Ridge School (
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) ** Turtle Mountain Elementary School (Belcourt, North Dakota) ** Turtle Mountain Middle School (Belcourt, North Dakota) *
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( Salem, Oregon) ** First Mesa Elementary School (
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) ** John F. Kennedy Day School (
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) ** Keams Canyon Elementary School (
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) ** San Simon School (Tohono O'odham) (
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) ** Santa Rosa Day School (Tohono O'odham) (Sells, Arizona) ** Santa Rosa Ranch School (Sells, Arizona) **
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(Riverside, California) ** Tohono O'odham High School (Sells, Arizona) *
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Resource Center: ** Bread Springs Day School ( Gallup, New Mexico) ** Chi Chil'tah Community School ( Chi Chil'tah, New Mexico with a Vanderwagen postal address) ** Crystal Boarding School (
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with a Navajo postal address) ** Pine Springs Day School ( Houck, Arizona) ** Wingate Elementary School (
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) ** Wingate High School (Wingate, New Mexico) * Chinle, Arizona Resource Center: ** Cottonwood Day School (west of Chinle, Arizona) ** Dennehotso Boarding School ( Dennehotso, Arizona) ** Jeehdeez'a Academy, Inc. (
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) ** Many Farms High School (Many Farms, Arizona) *
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Resource Center: ** Kaibeto Boarding School ( Kaibeto, Arizona) ** Rocky Ridge Boarding School ( Kykotsmovi, Arizona) ** Seba Dalkai Boarding School (
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) ** Tonalea (Red Lake) Day School (
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) ** Tuba City Boarding School (
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Resource Center: ** Baca/Dlo'ay Azhi Community School (
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) ** Ojo Encino Day School (
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) ** Pueblo Pintado Community School (Cuba, New Mexico) ** Lake Valley Navajo School (Crownpoint, New Mexico) ** Mariano Lake Community School (Crownpoint, New Mexico) ** T'iis Ts'ozi Bi'Olta' (Crownpoint, New Mexico) ** Tohaali' Community School (
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) ** Tse'ii'ahi' Community School (Crownpoint, New Mexico) * Shiprock, New Mexico Resource Center: ** Aneth Community School ( Montezuma Creek, Utah) ** Beclabito Day School (Shiprock, New Mexico) ** Cove Day School ( Red Valley, Arizona) ** Kayenta Community School (
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) ** Nenahnezad Community School (
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) ** Red Rock Day School (Red Valley, Arizona) ** Sanostee Day School (
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) ** T'iis Nazbas Community School (
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Cottonwood Day School

It was dedicated in 1968.


Crystal Boarding School

Crystal Boarding School is a K-6 boarding school in
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. In 2014 about 30 students boarded but most did not. Only one dormitory was open, as another was deemed unsafe. In 2013 5% of the students were classified as having mathematics skills on par with their grade levels even though the school had already shifted most of its instruction to mathematics and reading at the expense of science and social studies. In 2015 ''
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'' stated that the school's campus was in a poor condition. It had no school counselor.


Dennehotso Boarding School

Dennehotso Boarding School in Dennehotso, Arizona serves grades K–8. The two buildings are OFMC projects: a school facility for 186 students and a dormitory for 33 students. The scheduled groundbreaking was February 11, 2013. The previous buildings scheduled for demolition had a total of of space. The school provides transportation for students between Baby Rocks and
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, and asks families living outside of that area and/or distant from the highway to have their children stay at the dormitory.


Rocky Ridge Boarding School

It is a K-8 boarding school in Kykotsmovi, Arizona. In 2020 its enrollment was over 100. Alden Woods of ''
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'' stated "One former student described it as a refuge from a rural community struggling through generations of trauma", stating that the school provides room and board to children with no other reliable source of food and lodging. On March 16, 2020, during the
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, the State of Arizona closed district-operated public schools. BIE schools were not required to close at that time, though several did. After employees met that day, COVID spread through the school's community. Once COVID infections were diagnosed, the school temporarily closed. It holds an equine (horse) festival every year.


Tribally operated

There are also tribally operated schools affiliated with the BIE. * Albuquerque Resource Center: ** Blackwater Community School (
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) ** Casa Blanca Community School ( Bapchule, Arizona) ** Dishchii'bikoh Community School (
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) ** Gila Crossing Community School (
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) ** Hopi Day School ( Kykotsmovi, Arizona) **
Hopi Junior/Senior High School Hopi Junior Senior High School (HJSHS) is a tribal junior high and high school in Keams Canyon, Arizona. It is operated in cooperation with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) as a grant day school. Administration * Superintendent – Steven B ...
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Keams Canyon, Arizona Keams Canyon (Hopi: Pongsikya or Pongsikvi; nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. The population was 304 at the 2010 census. Pongsikya is a narrow box canyon that is named after a plant of edible gre ...
) ** Hotevilla Bacavi Community School ( Hotevilla, Arizona) ** Jicarilla Dormitory School (
Dulce, New Mexico Dulce ( or ; apj, Lóosi) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 2,743 at the 2010 census, almost entirely Native American. It is the largest community and tribal headquarters of ...
) ** Kha'p'o Community School ( Espanola, New Mexico) ** Laguna Elementary School ( Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico) ** Laguna Middle School (Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico) ** Mescalero Apache School (
Mescalero, New Mexico Mescalero ( apm, Mashgal) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Otero County, New Mexico, United States, located on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. The population was 1,338 at the 2010 census. History The settlement was originally call ...
) ** Moencopi Day School (
Moenkopi, Arizona Moenkopi (, nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to the southeast side of Tuba City off U.S. Route 160. The population was 964 at the 2010 census. A Hopi community, it was founded in ...
with a Tuba City postal address) ** Ohkay Owingeh Community School (
Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico Ohkay Owingeh ( Tewa: Ohkwee Ówîngeh ), known by its Spanish name as San Juan de los Caballeros from 1589 to 2005, is a pueblo and census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Ohkay Owingeh is also a federally recognized tri ...
) ** Pine Hill Schools (
Pine Hill, New Mexico Pinehill or Pine Hill is a census-designated place in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is located on the Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation. The population was 88 at the 2010 census. The location of the CDP in 2010 had become the locatio ...
) ** Salt River Elementary School (
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Santa Fe Indian School The Federal Government established the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS) in 1890 to educate Native American children from tribes throughout the Southwestern United States. The purpose of creating SFIS was an attempt to assimilate the Native American c ...
( Santa Fe, New Mexico) ** Second Mesa Day School (
Second Mesa, Arizona Second Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, on the Hopi Reservation, atop the 5,700-foot (1,740 m) mesa. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the CDP population was 962, spread among three Hopi, Hopi Indi ...
) ** Te Tsu Geh Oweenge Day School (Santa Fe, New Mexico) ** Theodore Roosevelt School (
Fort Apache, Arizona Fort Apache ( apw, Tłʼog Hagai) is an unincorporated community in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Fort Apache is on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, east of Canyon Day. Fort Apache has a post office with ZIP code 85926. Demograp ...
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Hunters Point Boarding School Hunters Point Boarding School, Inc. (HPBS, nv, Tse’Na’shchiiO’lta’) is a boarding elementary school, operated by the Navajo tribe, in unincorporated Apache County, Arizona, with a St Michaels address. The boundaries of the St. Michae ...
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St. Michaels, Arizona St. Michaels ( nv, ) is a chapter of the Navajo Nation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The Navajo Nation Government Campus is located within the chapter at Window Rock. The population was 1,443 at t ...
) ** Kin Dah Lichi'I Olta (
Ganado, Arizona Ganado ( nv, ) is a chapter of the Navajo Nation and census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,210 at the 2010 census. Ganado is part of the Fort Defiance Agency, of the Bureau of Indian A ...
) ** T'iisyaakin Residential Hall (
Holbrook, Arizona Holbrook ( nv, Tʼiisyaakin) is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city was 5,053. The city is the county seat of Navajo County. Holbrook was founded in 1881 or 1882, when the ...
) ** Wide Ruins Community School (
Chambers, Arizona Chambers is an unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona, United States. Chambers is located at the junction of Interstate 40 and U.S. Route 191, northeast of Holbrook. Chambers has a post office with ZIP code 86502. History Chambe ...
) ** Winslow Residential Hall (
Winslow, Arizona Winslow ( nv, ) is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, Navajo County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population of the city is 9,655. It is approximately southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona, Flag ...
) * Chinle, Arizona Resource Center: ** Black Mesa Community School (
Pinon, Arizona Pinon ( nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States, and located in the Navajo Nation. The population was 904 at the 2010 census. Geography Pinon is located at (36.100862, -110.219387). According to the U ...
) ** Greasewood Springs Community School (
Ganado, Arizona Ganado ( nv, ) is a chapter of the Navajo Nation and census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,210 at the 2010 census. Ganado is part of the Fort Defiance Agency, of the Bureau of Indian A ...
) ** Lukachukai Community School (
Lukachukai, Arizona Lukachukai ( nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,701 at the 2010 census. It is within the Navajo Nation. Etymology Lukachukai comes from a Navajo word translated as "a fi ...
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Many Farms Community School Many Farms Community School, Inc. (MFCS), is a tribally controlled K-8 school in Many Farms, Arizona, operated by the Navajo Nation. It is funded by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). MFCS has a boarding program to serve students who live at ...
( Many Farms, Arizona) ** Nazlini Community School (Ganado, Arizona) ** Pinon Community School (Pinon, Arizona) ** Rock Point Community School ( Rock Point, Arizona) ** Rough Rock Community School (Chinle, Arizona) * Tuba City, Arizona Resource Center: ** Chilchinbeto Community School (
Kayenta, Arizona Kayenta ( nv, ) is a U.S. town which is part of the Navajo Nation and is in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. Established November 13, 1986, the Kayenta Township is the only "township" existing under the laws of the Navajo Nation, making it ...
) ** Dilcon Community School (
Winslow, Arizona Winslow ( nv, ) is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, Navajo County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population of the city is 9,655. It is approximately southeast of Flagstaff, Arizona, Flag ...
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Greyhills Academy High School Greyhills Academy High School is a Native American boarding high school (grades 9–12) in Tuba City, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. It is operated by the Western Navajo Agency, a tribal agency working in affiliation with the Bureau of Indian Edu ...
(Tuba City, Arizona) ** KinLani Bordertown Dormitory ( Flagstaff, Arizona) **
Leupp Schools, Inc. Leupp Schools, Inc., is a K-12 grant-funded school affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education. It is in Leupp, Arizona and has a Winslow postal address. Its GNIS is 7538. It is the mission of the Leupp Schools, Inc. to prepare and empower al ...
(Winslow, Arizona) ** Little Singer Community School ( southeast of Birdsprings, Arizona, with a
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postal address) ** Naa Tsis'aan Community School (
Tonalea, Arizona Tonalea ( nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Coconino County, Arizona, United States. The population was 549 at the 2010 census. It has also been known as Red Lake. __TOC__ Geography Tonalea is located at (36.317714, -110.970341) ...
) ** Richfield Residential Hall (
Richfield, Utah Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Utah, United States, and is the largest city in southern-central Utah. Description As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,551. It lies in the Mormon Corridor, just off I ...
) ** Shonto Preparatory School (
Shonto, Arizona Shonto ( nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States, in the Navajo Nation. The population was 591 at the 2010 census. Geography Shonto is located at (36.598209, -110.658156). According to the United Sta ...
) *Crownpoint, New Mexico Resource Center: ** Alamo Navajo Community School ( Alamo, New Mexico, with a Magdalena postal address) ** Ch'ooshgai Community School (
Tohatchi, New Mexico Tohatchi ( nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. It is known as a health services and education hub along Highway 491. The population was reported to be 785 at the 2020 census. ...
) ** Dibe Yazhi Habitiin Olta' Inc. (Borrego Pass) (
Crownpoint, New Mexico Crownpoint ( nv, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Navajo Nation in McKinley County, New Mexico. The population was 2,500 at the time of the 2010 census. It is located along the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New ...
) ** Na'Neelzhin Ji'Olta (Torreon) (
Cuba, New Mexico Cuba is a village in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 735. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area. Description Located along the busy U.S. Route 550, Cuba has ...
) ** To'hajiilee Day School (Canoncito, New Mexico) *Shiprock, New Mexico Resource Center: ** Atsa'Biya'a'zh Community School ( Shiprock, New Mexico) ** Dzilth-Na-O-Dith-Hle Community School (
Bloomfield, New Mexico Bloomfield ( nv, ) is a city in northeastern San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Farmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 8,112 at the 2010 census. It is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one o ...
) ** Hanaa'dli Community School/Dormitory Inc. (Bloomfield, New Mexico) ** Kinteel Residential Academy (Aztec Dorm) (
Aztec, New Mexico Aztec ( nv, Kinteel) is a city in, and the county seat of, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 6,763. The Aztec Ruins National Monument is located on the north side of the city. Geogra ...
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Navajo Preparatory School Navajo Preparatory School is a college preparatory school located in Farmington, New Mexico. The school is fully sanctioned by the Navajo Nation since 1991 when the previous Navajo Academy closed due to lack of funding. The campus is currently und ...
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Farmington, New Mexico Farmington is a city in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census the city had a total population of 46,624 people. Farmington (and surrounding San Juan County) makes up one of the four Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
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Shiprock Northwest High School Shiprock Associated Schools, Inc. (SASI) is an organization that operates two schools associated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) in Shiprock, New Mexico: * Atsá Biyáázh Community School (elementary) * Northwest Middle & High School Th ...
(Shiprock, New Mexico) ** Shiprock Reservation Dormitory (Shiprock, New Mexico) * Bloomington, Minnesota Resource Center: **
Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School is a K-12 tribal school in unincorporated Cass County, Minnesota, near Bena. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). Located on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, it serves the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe ...
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Bena, Minnesota Bena ( ) is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 116 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Area. History A post office called Bena has been in operation since 1898. Bena is a ty ...
) ** Circle of Life Survival School (
White Earth, Minnesota White Earth is a census-designated place (CDP) in Becker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 580 at the 2010 census. White Earth was named after the White Earth Indian Reservation, and that took its name from the White Earth Lak ...
) ** Circle of Nations (
Wahpeton, North Dakota Wahpeton ( ) is a city in Richland County, in southeast North Dakota along the Bois de Sioux River at its confluence with the Otter Tail River, which forms the Red River of the North. Wahpeton is the county seat of Richland County. The populati ...
) ** Fond du Lac Ojibwe School (
Cloquet, Minnesota Cloquet ( ) is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States, at the junction of Interstate 35 and Minnesota State Highway 33. Part of the city lies within the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and serves as one of the reservation's three admi ...
) ** Hannahville Indian School ( Wilson, Michigan) ** Joseph K. Lumsden Bahweting Anishnabe (
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan Sault Ste. Marie ( ') is the only city in, and county seat of, Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan. With a population of 13,337 at the 2020 census, it is the second-most populated city in the Upper Peninsula after Marquette. It i ...
) ** Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa School (
Hayward, Wisconsin Hayward is a city in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States, next to the Namekagon River. The population was 2,318 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Sawyer County. The city is surrounded by the Town of Hayward. History Early h ...
) ** Menominee Tribal School ( Neopit, Wisconsin) ** Nay-Ah-Shing School (
Onamia, Minnesota Onamia ( ) is a city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 878 at the 2010 census. U.S. Highway 169 and Minnesota State Highway 27 are the main routes in the community. History Originally, the city of Onamia was or ...
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Oneida Nation School Oneida Nation School System is a tribal K-12 school in Oneida, Wisconsin. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), and serves the Oneida Nation. It has a 38-classroom elementary school building and a separate high school buil ...
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Oneida, Wisconsin Oneida is an unincorporated community and former census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Oneida, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,070 at the 2000 census. At the census, part of the CDP lay within the Town ...
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Rapid City, South Dakota Rapid City ( lkt, link=no, Mni Lúzahaŋ Otȟúŋwahe; "Swift Water City") is the second most populous city in South Dakota and the county seat of Pennington County. Named after Rapid Creek, where the settlement developed, it is in western So ...
Resource Center: ** American Horse School (
Allen, South Dakota Allen (Lakota: ''Wagmíza Wakpála''; "corn creek") is a census-designated place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Bennett County, South Dakota, United States, that was named for the Allen Township (civil township), which it encompasses. ...
) ** Crazy Horse School (
Wanblee, South Dakota Wanblee (Lakota: ''Waŋblí Hoȟpi''; "Golden Eagle Nest") is a census-designated place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, located in Jackson County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 674 at the 2020 census, virtually all of who ...
) ** Little Wound School (
Kyle, South Dakota Kyle ( Lakota: ''phežúta ȟaká''; "Branched Medicine") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. Its population was 943 at the 2020 census. Located within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of th ...
) ** Loneman Day School ( Oglala, South Dakota) ** Pierre Indian School Learning Center (
Pierre, South Dakota Pierre ( ; lkt, Čhúŋkaške, lit=fort) is the capital city of South Dakota, United States, and the seat of Hughes County. The population was 14,091 at the 2020 census, making it the second-least populous US state capital after Montpelier, ...
) ** Porcupine Day School (
Porcupine, South Dakota Porcupine (Lakota language, Lakota: ''pȟahíŋ siŋté''; "porcupine tail") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 925 at the 2020 United St ...
) ** Sicangu Owayawa Oti (
Mission, South Dakota Mission is a city on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in northern Todd County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,156 at the 2020 census. Mission is home of the Sinte Gleska University. It is the largest incorporated community in ...
) ** St. Francis Indian School ( Saint Francis, South Dakota) ** St. Stephens Indian School ( St. Stephens, Wyoming) ** Takini School (
Howes, South Dakota Howes is an unincorporated community in Meade County, South Dakota, United States. Although not tracked by the Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal ...
) ** Tiospaye Topa School ( Ridgeview, South Dakota) ** Wounded Knee ( Manderson, South Dakota) *
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Resource Center: ** Chief Leschi Schools (
Puyallup, Washington Puyallup ( or ) is a city in Pierce County, Washington, United States, located about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Tacoma and 35 miles (56 km) south of Seattle. It had a population of 42,973 at the 2020 census. The city's name comes from th ...
) ** Coeur d'Alene Tribal School ( DeSmet, Idaho) ** Duckwater Shoshone Elementary School ( Duckwater, Nevada) ** Lummi Nation School (
Bellingham, Washington Bellingham ( ) is the most populous city in, and county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies south of the U.S.–Canada border in between two major cities of the Pacific Northwest: Vancouver, British Columbia (loc ...
) ** Muckleshoot Tribal School ( Auburn, Washington) ** Noli Indian School (
San Jacinto, California San Jacinto ( ; ; Spanish for " St. Hyacinth") is a city in Riverside County, California. It is located at the north end of the San Jacinto Valley, with Hemet to its south and Beaumont, California, to its north. The mountains associated with ...
) ** Northern Cheyenne Tribal School ( Busby, Montana) ** Paschal Sherman Indian School (
Omak, Washington Omak ( Merriam (1997), p. 869) is a city located in the foothills of the Okanogan Highlands in north-central Washington, United States. With an estimated 4,845 residents as of 2010, distributed over a land area of , Omak is the largest municipa ...
) ** Pyramid Lake Jr./Sr. High School ( Nixon, Nevada) **
Quileute Tribal School Quileute Tribal School (QTS) is a Quileute, Native American school located in La Push, Washington. It is a K-12 school, serving students in grades kindergarten – 12. QTS is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). It has a c ...
( LaPush, Washington) ** Shoshone Bannock Jr./Sr. High School ( Pocatello, Idaho) ** Two Eagle River School (
Pablo, Montana Pablo is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lake County, Montana, United States. The population was 2,254 at the 2010 census, up from 1,814 in 2000. It is the home of Salish Kootenai College and the seat of government of the Flathead Indian Re ...
) ** Wa He Lut Indian School (
Olympia, Washington Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. Europea ...
) ** Yakama Nation Tribal School (
Toppenish, Washington Toppenish () is a city in Yakima County, Washington. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 8,854. It is located within the Yakama Indian Reservation, established in 1855. Toppenish calls itself the city of Murals, as it has more than 7 ...
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Flandreau, South Dakota Flandreau is a city in and county seat of Moody County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 2,372 at the 2020 census. It was named in honor of Charles Eugene Flandrau, a judge in the territory and state of Minnesota. He is credite ...
Resource Center ** Crow Creek Reservation High School ( Stephan, South Dakota) ** Crow Creek Sioux Tribal Elementary School (Stephan, South Dakota) ** Enemy Swim School ( Waubay, South Dakota) ** Lower Brule Day School (
Lower Brule, South Dakota Lower Brule ( lkt, Khulwíčhaša) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lyman County, South Dakota, Lyman County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 703 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The community is located within th ...
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Marty Indian School 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 Sioux Tribe owns the facilities and directly manages th ...
( Marty, South Dakota) ** Meskwaki Settlement School (
Tama, Iowa Tama is a city in Tama County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,130 at the time of the 2020 census. Tama is situated two miles south of Toledo, the county seat. The two towns are close enough to have nearly grown together over the year ...
) ** Chickasaw Children's Village ( Kingston, Oklahoma) ** Eufala Dormitory (
Eufaula, Oklahoma Eufaula is a city and county seat of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,813 at the 2010 census, an increase of 6.6 percent from 2,639 in 2000. Eufaula is in the southern part of the county, north of McAlester and ...
) ** Jones Academy (
Hartshorne, Oklahoma Hartshorne (pronounced "Hearts-orn") is a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the second largest city in the county. The population was 2,125 at the 2010 census. Description The community was named for Dr. Charles Hartshor ...
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Kickapoo Nation School Kickapoo Nation School is a K-12 tribal school in Powhattan, Kansas, United States. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIE). It is the sole tribal school in the state. Clippingfrom Newspapers.com. Also at: Clippingfrom Newspapers ...
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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 ...
) ** Sequoyah High School (Tahlequah, Oklahoma) ** Tiospaye Zina School (
Agency Village, South Dakota Agency Village is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Roberts County, South Dakota, United States. It is the headquarters of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and home to Sisseton Wahpeton College. Since 2020, the CDP includes ...
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Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and ...
Resource Center ** Ahfachkee Day School (near
Clewiston, Florida Clewiston is a city in Hendry County, Florida, United States. Its location is northwest of Fort Lauderdale on the Atlantic coastal plain. The population was 7,327 at the 2020 census, up from 7,155 at the 2010 census. The estimated population in ...
) ** Beatrice Rafferty School (
Perry, Maine Perry is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States, on the Canada–United States border. At the 2020 census, the town had a population of 802. History Once part of Plantation T1 TS, the area was settled in 1758 by John Frost, who ...
) ** Bogue Chitto Elementary School (
Philadelphia, Mississippi Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,118 at the 2020 census. History Philadelphia is incorporated as a municipality; it was given its current name in 1903, two years ...
) ** Cherokee Central Elementary School ( Cherokee, North Carolina) ** Cherokee Central High School (Cherokee, North Carolina) ** Chitimacha Tribal School (
Jeanerette, Louisiana Jeanerette () is a city in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States. Known as "Sugar City", it had a population of 5,530 at the 2010 census, a decrease of 467 from the 2000 tabulation of 5,997. It is two thirds African American, many of them Creo ...
) ** Choctaw Central High School (Choctaw, Mississippi) ** Choctaw Central Middle School (Choctaw, Mississippi) ** Conehatta Elementary School ( Conehatta, Mississippi) ** Indian Island School ( Indian Island, Maine) ** Indian Township School ( Princeton, Maine) **
Miccosukee Indian School Miccosukee Indian School is a K-12 tribal school in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, with a Miami postal address. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). It is located along the Tamiami Trail. Clippingfrom Newspapers.c ...
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Miami, Florida Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
) ** Pearl River Elementary School (Choctaw, Mississippi) ** Red Water Elementary School (
Carthage, Mississippi Carthage is a city in Leake County, Mississippi, Leake County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,075 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Leake County. The largest chicken processing plant in the world is located in Carthage ...
) ** Standing Pine Elementary School (Carthage, Mississippi) ** Tucker Elementary School (Philadelphia, Mississippi) * Bismarck, North Dakota Resource Center ** Mandaree Day School (
Mandaree, North Dakota Mandaree (Hidatsa: Adixoodagoorahareesh) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 596 at the 2010 census. Mandaree is located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in the Mandan, Hi ...
) ** Rock Creek Grant School (
Bullhead, South Dakota Bullhead is a census-designated place (CDP) in Corson County, South Dakota, United States, within the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The population was 348 at the 2010 census. History The community has the name of Bullhead, a member of the Ind ...
) ** Little Eagle Grant School ( Little Eagle, South Dakota) - It was known as Sitting Bull School until 2016. ** Standing Rock Community School (
Fort Yates, North Dakota Yates is a city in Sioux County, North Dakota, United States. It is the tribal headquarters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and county seat of Sioux County. Since 1970 the population has declined markedly from more than 1,100 residents, as pe ...
) ** Tate Topa Tribal School (
Fort Totten, North Dakota Fort Totten is a census-designated place (CDP) in Benson County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,243 at the 2010 census. Fort Totten is located within the Spirit Lake Reservation and is the site of tribal headquarters. The reser ...
) ** Theodore Jamerson Elementary School (Bismarck, North Dakota) ** Turtle Mountain High School (Belcourt, North Dakota) ** Twin Buttes Day School ( Halliday, North Dakota) ** White Shield School ( West Roseglen, North Dakota)


American Horse School

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, and includes the Lacreek, Pass Creek and Medicine Root Creek districts of the reservation. In 2015 the ''
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'' editorial board wrote that American Horse had poor insulation, had too many students relative to building capacity, has tile flooring in poor repair and using asbestos, and "lacks the electrical and communications infrastructure needed to support the technology used in modern education."


Chitimacha Tribal School

In 1937 a two classroom public school building condemned by the
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was moved to Charenton, and began serving the community as a 1-8 school; the student population went over 60. In 1968 the
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was established. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) built a new school, which began operations in 1978, to replace the former facility. It had 38 in the 1978-1979 school year, but this went down to 29 in 1980-1981 and 22 in 1981-1982. In 1982 it got a funding cut due to
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, which led to fears that the school could close.


Duckwater Shoshone Elementary School

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, it is in a building on the Duckwater Reservation in Duckwater that previously functioned as a church. The school was established circa 1973 by tribal members who were not satisfied with their children's course in the
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Duckwater Shoshone maintains its own zoological garden.


Lukachukai Community School

The campus has of property and includes a dormitory. In 1976, the seventh grade at Lukachukai ended so that grade was sent to Chinle Boarding School (now
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). In 2015 the school was under-resourced, and the school community made an effort to get a replacement facility. Principal Arthur Ben personally recruited teachers, including some who were previously retired.


Theodore Roosevelt School

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. It includes grades 6-8. It is in the White Mountains and serves the White Mountain Apache Tribe.
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The dormitories opened sometime after 1935. A cafeteria opened in 1948. In 1995 it had 100 students. By 1995 conditions at the school had deteriorated to the point where students had to be boarded at
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dormitorites as the standard dormitory buildings needed heating repairs and asbestos removal. Additionally the cafeteria was at times unuseable; the school took students to a restaurant so they could eat there.


Wingate Elementary School

the Wingate Elementary dormitory is a former military barracks that also houses students at Wingate High. In 1968 the girls' dormitory had 125 girls; the
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stated that the dormitory lacked decoration and personal effects and was reflective of a campaign to de-personalize Native American students. At the time the school strongly discouraged students from speaking Navajo and wanted them to only speak English. Circa 1977 it opened a 125-student $90,000 building which used a solar heating system.


Former facilities

Includes the BIE, OIEP, and predecessor agencies: *
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*Manuelito Hall in Gallup, New Mexico, a dormitory which housed Native American students attending
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. In 1973 it had about 300 students, including 12 from Arizona. That year the BIA closed Manuelito Hall, planning to move students to various boarding schools. The public school system's funding was not anticipated to be harmed by this closure. There were some families that wanted their children to remain at Gallup-McKinley schools as they perceived them to be better than BIA schools. The BIA planned to send the Arizonans to Arizona, and of the remaining students: 110 high school students to Wingate High School, 80 elementary students to Crownpoint Boarding School, 45 elementary school students to Wingate Elementary School, and others to Chuska Boarding School and Tohatchi Boarding School. *
Mount Edgecumbe High School Mt. Edgecumbe High School (abbreviated MEHS) is a public boarding high school in Sitka, Alaska in the United States. Located on Japonski Island, across Sitka Harbor from the northwestern corner of downtown Sitka, the school is situated on a port ...
in Sitka, Alaska, now operated by the State of Alaska *
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*
Eight Mile School District Eight Mile School District #6 is a school district headquartered in Trenton, North Dakota. It operates one K-12 school, Trenton School. It is entirely in Williams County. Status From 1987 to 2008 the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and its pr ...
- Public school district that was BIE/OIE-funded from 1987 to 2008; in 2008 the BIE declared that it was not tribally controlled and therefore should never have received BIE funds.


See also

* Bureau of Indian Affairs * Charles Monty Roessel


References


Further reading

* Carter, Patricia A.
"Completely Discouraged": Women Teachers' Resistance in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools, 1900-1910
" '' Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies'' Vol. 15, No. 3 (1995), pp. 53–86.
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. Available at JSTOR. DOIbr>10.2307/3346785
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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bureau Of Indian Education United States Bureau of Indian Affairs School districts in the United States