Overview
March 05, 2007
The goal of Title VII Indian Education is to address the
educational and cultural needs of Indian students and improve
elementary and secondary school programs that serve Indian
students. The programs assist Indian students to meet the same
challenging state and academic content and student academic
achievement standards used for all students.
Scottsbluff’s Indian Education program supports closing the
achievement gap for Indian students. American Indians have always
had a strong belief in education. Traditional “knowledge and skills
needed to survive in the natural world was transferred from one
generation to the next, and the phrase, ‘no child left behind,’ was
not an empty slogan . . . An important facet of this educational
system, which reflected the worldview of hundreds of Indian
Nations, was that everything was integrated; nothing was
segregated. There was no division between the individual and the
community . . .”
“Let us put our minds together to see what lives we make for our
children.” – Sitting Bull
