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Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota Series: Truth and Reconciliation Day
Truth and Reconciliation Day (or Orange Shirt Day) is a national holiday in Canada and has seeped over into many indigenous communities...
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Oct 6, 20223 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota Series - Indigenous Peoples Day
Indigenous Peoples’ Day was created to honor the cultures and histories of Indigenous people. It grew increasingly common as a day...
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Oct 5, 20222 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota series: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Event
The crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is the culmination of a spectrum of violence perpetrated disproportionately against...
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May 4, 20222 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Spirit Lake Nation
(Word pronunciations are available when the text is the color purple.) The Spirit Lake tribe, also pronounced as Mni (water) Wakan ("pure...
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May 2, 20223 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: One with the Earth
The truth is that for Indigenous People, EVERY DAY is EARTH DAY! Chief Seattle in his Treaty Oration of 1854: “Every part of this soil is...
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Apr 20, 20224 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (in the Dakota Language: Sisituŋwaŋ-Waĥpetuŋwaŋ), are located on the Lake Traverse Reservation. This...
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Apr 18, 20223 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
North Dakota Ojibwe call themselves “Anishinaabe” which means “original people”. Other indigenous persons and Europeans mispronounced...
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Apr 7, 20224 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series - MHA Nation
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes) is located on the Fort Berthold Reservation in central North Dakota...
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Mar 25, 20224 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series
The people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe are members of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota (meaning “friends” or “allies”) nations. Just as...
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Feb 25, 20222 min read


Extended School Program Summer and Fall Registration
CREA Extended School Program (ESP) has announced its Summer and Fall Registration dates. **Please note that only Lincoln's site will...
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Feb 2, 20221 min read


Indigenous 101 - North Dakota Essential Understandings
“Contrary to Hollywood’s definition of beauty, the more wrinkles our elders have, the more beautiful they become to us. The lines of...
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Jan 31, 20222 min read


Indigenous 101
DID YOU KNOW? Within the boundaries of North Dakota, there are five federally-recognized tribes. In total, there are more than 31,000...
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Jan 11, 20222 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota Series
Did You Know: Verbal communication is the predominant and preferred form of communication for many Native American tribes and Indigenous...
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Dec 20, 20212 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series
Although our state’s K-12 social studies standards and required U.S. and North Dakota history courses have long included instruction on...
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Dec 14, 20212 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota
CREA’s Multi-Cultural Programs offer opportunities to help educators integrate multicultural and diversity education into their...
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Dec 1, 20211 min read


Foundations of Reading Series
“We teach reading in different ways; they (students) learn to read proficiently in only one way.” David Kilpatrick. The 1997 National...
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Jul 29, 20212 min read


CREA Spring Reading Contest
Congratulations to all of the students at Sweet Briar and Little Heart Elementary schools for their reading accomplishments. Sweet Briar...
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Apr 30, 20211 min read


ND eCare School Health Program
The ND eCare School Health Program provides all day access to experienced school nurses, using real-time audio/video technology. The...
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Mar 22, 20211 min read


STOPit Solutions - Anonymous Reporting System
We know the novel coronavirus has upended life as we know it, but did you know that it has also created a shift in our mental health?...
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Jan 14, 20212 min read


EL Services: Tracking the Progress of English Learners
As the end of 2020 draws near, schools across ND will begin gearing up for ACCESS testing, set to begin on January 11, 2021 and ending on...
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Dec 8, 20202 min read
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