Education

Most of the testimony the Navajo Nation Department of Diné Education heard from the public Monday about wresting control of Bureau of Indian Education schools was against the idea.

More than 600 Native youth and their families, some traveling in buses from as far away as Tuba City, arrived on University of Arizona campus for the second annual Native American College Day.

One wouldn’t think chucking a box with an egg inside from 30 feet educational, but for students at Diné College’s first Engineering Day it was all in the name of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

This year’s White house Tribal Nations Conference will include a decidedly youthful element.

A $200,000 check from the Interior Department will help jumpstart the Navajo Nation’s efforts to take local control of Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools.