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Haskell students, faculty and guests spoke throughout the week about what Vine Deloria Jr.’s influential book, "God is Red,” has meant to them. Many of the speakers touched on the collision between Western and Indigenous worldviews, experiential learning, and spirituality.

Changes to ethnic determination on school forms will include the collection of Tribal affiliation data, a step that will help Tribes increase services and increase enrollment accuracy of Native Americans, who are traditionally under-counted.

Michigan recently became the latest state to require the collection of data on Native K-12 students' tribal affiliations.

The Kansas State Board of Education on Thursday recommended that the states public school districts eliminate Native American mascots and branding to reduce their harmful impacts on students.

Essie Collier, a fourth grader in Racine, Wis., may have saved a classmates life when she "rushed up there as fast as I can" and performed the Heimlich maneuver on a girl choking on food, with an amazed teacher saying, "I have never seen a student react in that way before."

The Kansas State Board of Education voted to make a "strong recommendation" that school districts in Kansas retire the use of American Indian mascots.

The Kansas State Board of Education is expected to vote in November on a recommendation school districts abandon offensive Native American mascots, imagery.

The University of Kansas and the Lied Center are set to host a daylong event next month to celebrate Native American traditions and culture. KU’s First Nati