Catching the Dream Catching may refer to:
*Dave Catching
*Lapanka or Rafle
See also
* Catch (disambiguation)
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Career
Chavers has spent 35 years as a consultant in Indian education has written 25 books, including ''The National Indian Grant Directory'', ''How to Write Winning Proposals'', "Modern American Indian Leaders," "Racism in Indian Country," and ''Exemplary Programs in Indian Education''. He is the former President of
Bacone College
Bacone College, formerly Bacone Indian University, is a private tribal college in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Founded in 1880 as the Indian University by missionary Almon C. Bacone, it was originally affiliated with the mission arm of what is now Ameri ...
. At Bacone, he moved it from being a junior college to being a senior college.
He has presented seminars, keynote speeches, and training all over the U. S. He has appeared at Stanford University, the University of South Dakota, the University of Oklahoma, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Fayetteville School District, NC, the Cherokee Nation, the Navajo Nation, the National Indian Education Association, Ganado Unified School District, Chinle Unified School District, St. Francis Indian School, Umon Hon Nation Schools, and The College Board. He also taught a Native American Education course at Cal State Hayward in early 1970s. His most popular seminar is "How to Write Winning Proposals," which he has presented more than 125 times. His book by the same name was published by CTD. He also trains people in how to improve their schools through a seminar called "How to Develop Exemplary Programs." His most recent book was "Racism in Indian Country," published by Peter Lang Publishers in 2009. His book before that was a two-volume work of 800 pages called "Modern American Indian Leaders," published by Mellen Press in 2007. Both are being used as college textbooks.
As director of Catching the Dream, Chavers has helped 679 Native American students finish college. He initiated the Exemplary Programs in Indian Education (EPIE) Movement in 1988, which has founded 39 such programs in Indian schools.