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Native American students get glimpse of medical careers
Growing up on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon, Krysten Allen-Alford has seen more than her tribe’s share of teenage pregnancies.
“Thirteen-year-old girls having babies” is not uncommon, said Allen-Alford, who at 16 is determined to do something about the health care of her people by becoming a pediatric nurse.
“I just want to be somebody who helps out,” she said, “and going to college will prepare me.”
Allen-Alford is one of 25 American Indian high school students from throughout the Northwest attending a health care camp at Washington State University’s Spokane campus this week.
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Mazhua school - M Yampolski
The Mazahua indians live in the north of the state of México and small areas in Michoacán. In the Mazahua area there are also nonindigenous populations, and Otomí Indians live in some municipalities.
Owing to migration, it is now possible to find Mazahua living in the cities of other states, for example in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and Mexico City.
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Norman students hope film helps rescue native tongues
http://www.newsok.com/norman-students-hope-film-helps-rescue-native-tongues/article/3337198
BY JENNIFER GRISWOLD Published: January 12, 2009
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Native high school students create anti-smoking PSAs Native high school students create anti-smoking PSAs | Indian Country Today | Living
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/28445894.html
The Northern California Indian Development Council’s Sacred Smoke Project has released a series of student-created public service announcements on the impact of commercial tobacco in the American Indian community.
The PSAs were created by NCIDC’s Tobacco Use Prevention Education program, the goal of which is to introduce students to the dangers associated with the abuse of commercial tobacco in order to prevent future generations from becoming nicotine addicts. The short messages were the product of the Hoopa Valley High School.
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Capturing history on film : ICT [2008/08/20]
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417983
Eight Northwest High School students recently completed a three-week-long filmmaking course, which took place July 7 - 25. Under the supervision of accomplished Santa Fe-based filmmakers Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller, best known for their films featuring American Indian themes (”Homelands,” ”Rocks with Wings,” ”Salt Song Trail,” ”Circle of Stories”), the students, ages 12 - 17, filmed and produced four short digital stories, including the legend of Shiprock.
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N.M. first state to adopt Navajo textbook
State officials formally adopted Yazzie’s book, “Dine Bizaad Binahoo’ahh,” or “Rediscovering the Navajo Language,” Tuesday in Santa Fe. While other books on Navajo language exist, state officials say New Mexico is the first to adopt a Navajo textbook for use in the public education system.
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Most museum goers confine themselves to murmurs of appreciation or the occasional reverent flip of a program page.
Not so for the high school spoken word team from the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico. The group of six, fresh off a successful stint at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, treated visitors to a strident production of Native American spoken word recently in the museum’s main hall.
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