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The Native American Basketball Invitational Founders Golf Classic raised $50,000 on Monday in Chandler, Arizona. The proceeds benefited the NABI College Scholarship Fund and Phoenix Indian Center.
The tournament was held at two golf courses with around 225 golfers. It also promoted Native American Basketball Invitational, where more than 1,500 athletes compete an all-Native American high school youth basketball tournament and annual weeklong educational youth summit held each July.
NABI is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023. The championship games played at Footprint Center in Phoenix are livestreamed.
In addition to the tournament, the program exposes student-athletes to educational opportunities such as the NABI College & Career Fair and NABI Educational Youth Summit, both powered by Phoenix Indian Center, and the NABI College Scholarship fund.
“We are grateful to be one of the beneficiaries of the NABI Founders Golf Classic and are proud to partner with NABI on their Educational Youth Summit and College and Career Fair,” said Jolyana Begay-Kroupa, CEO of the Phoenix Indian Center, in a press release. “Nationally, our tribal youth face many challenges, including poverty and higher than average rates of chemical dependency and teensuicide. Education can break that cycle and uplift our youth to become tomorrow’s leaders.” — ICT
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Dr. Michele Yatchmeneff, Unangax̂, Aluet, will receive The College Board’s Dr. Henrietta Mann Leadership Award for her “outstanding work increasing educational access for Alaska Native students, demonstrating leadership and commitment to student success and positively impacting Indigenous communities.”
Since October 2021, Yatchmeneff has served as the executive director for Alaska Native education & outreach at the university. She was an Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program scholar at the University of Alaska Anchorage where she earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 2005 and a masters in engineering management in 2009. Yatchmeneff earned her doctoral degree in engineering education from Purdue University in 2015.
Yatchmeneff will accept the award in San Diego, California at the Native American Student Advocacy Institute conference from June 8-9.
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HELENA, Mont. — A legislative bill that would revise the laws surrounding Montana’s Indian Education For All curriculum public school requirement, is slowly making its way through the Legislature, even if some recent amendments has the bill’s sponsor cautious.
The Senate floor voted to pass the amended Indian education bill, out to the Senate floor this week with a vote 47-3. The amendment includes reducing the tribal history curriculum from a public school requirement to a recommendation that is “encouraged.”
The bill’s sponsor said he planned to call for a conference committee when the bill hits the House floor again. He said he planned to refuse to concur with the amendment, giving him time to rework the wording.
In the meantime, he said he had to bide his time in order to allow the bill to move through the process.
“I said, ‘Whatever you need to do to get the votes on that, get it the hell out of there, then do what you gotta do,’ because I’m going to ‘do-not-concur’ anyway,’” said Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, Democrat, in an interview with Montana Free Press and ICT. READ MORE — JoVonne Wagner, ICT and MTFP
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