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Native Village Opportunities |
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Casting Search |
world Peace and Prayer Day June 21, 2007 Worldwide www.wolakota.org |
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Thumbelina Charitable
Foundation Tour Begins in April, 2007 Meet Thumbelina, the world's smallest horse, on her journey to raise money for children through her Thumbelina Charitable Foundation. http://www.worldssmallesthorse.com/ |
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The La Mura Video Festival Submission Deadline: August 15, 2007 Provides a venue for sharing the voices and stories of young people in culturally diverse communities through video storytelling. www.entertainingdiversity.com/ |
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Tourism Cares Offers Worldwide
Grant Program Deadline: June 1, 2007 Supports worthy tourism-related nonprofit organizations working to preserve, conserve, and restore the world's natural, cultural, and historic treasures. http://www.tourismcares.org/ |
Grants to Encourage Strong
School-Community Relationships June 8, 2007 Provides grants for programs committed to heightening community leadership, communication, ownership and involvement in the school. http://www.naesp.org/ |
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Applications to Encourage
Minorities to Attend Law School Deadline: June 1, 2007 Offering support for projects designed to encourage under- represented groups to pursue legal education and to increase the enrollment and successful law school completion of minority students. http://www.lsac.org/ |
Practitioner Fellowship
Applications for Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship |
Young Native Writers Essay
Contest Deadline: June 1, 2007. Promoting education and creating new opportunities for youth. http://indian.hklaw.com |
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Collaboration is the Key for
Quality Early Education June 5-7, 2007 Prescott, Arizona Hosted by the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. http://www.itcaonline.com/ |
Seventh Generation Fund |
SOUTHERN ARIZONA GATHERING OF
AMERICAN INDIAN VETS June 2, 2007 Tucson, AZ For Arizona's American Indian veterans and their families, focusing on veterans benefits and health care. 520-629-4960 |
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Invent America! Contest for
Students Deadline: June 15, 2007 Students in grades K-8 can create an innovative "invention" and win prizes! http://www.inventamerica.org/ |
Motorola Foundation: Innovation
Generation Grant Program |
Harry ChapinSelf-Reliance Awards Deadline: June 15, 2007 Distributes cash grants to outstanding grassroots organizations fighting domestic hunger and http://www.worldhungeryear.org/ |
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Urban Wildlife Management
National Conference June 18–20, 2007 World Forestry Center • Portland, Oregon |
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Native American Youth Entrepreneur
Camp June 17-22, 2007 University of Arizona High school juniors, seniors and recent graduates will learn real-world business skills and how to build citizen-owned businesses in Indian Country. Contact Ian Record or Monica Agar: 520-626-0664. http://www.ncglnac.org/frameset.html |
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Addressing Disparities in Education June 24 - June 29, 2007 July 15 - July 20, 2007 Columbia, Illinois Promotes understanding and respect among all races, religions and cultures through advocacy, conflict resolution and education. http://www.nccjstl.org/ |
INDIVISIBLE: Teaching for Social
Justice through Children's Literature |
Loving Decision Conference 2007:
The Next 40 Years of Multiracial Communities June 21-June 24, 2007 Roosevelt University, Chicago, ILL Looking for motivated and energetic college students who may be interested in participating in the planning of a historical event www.ameasite.org |
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Oglala Commemoration Our Children, Our Future June 26, 2007 Oglala South Dakota. Making better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. http://www.geocities.com/oglala_comm/newsletter |
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Scholarships for Less Commonly
Taught Languages (CARLA) Summer Institutes June 25-29, 2007 July 16-July 20, 2007 July 23-27 2007 July 30, August 3 2007 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Each institute focuses on language *immersion education* http://www.carla.umn.edu/i |
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Photo, Essay and Poetry Contest
Celebrates Our Sense of Wonder and Love
of Nature Deadline: June 15, 2007. Entries must be joint projects involving a person under age 18 and a person age 50 or older. http://www.epa.gov/ |
Indian Language, Culture and
Tradition: Keys
to Survival July 6 - 7, 2007 Choctaw, MS More info: Anthony Thompson at 601-775-8254 |
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Awards to Encourage Peers to
Graduate from High School and College Selected Weekly through June 29, 2007 Funding to selected youth teams with great ideas to help peers graduate from high school and college. http://www.youthventure.org/i |
Budweiser Renewable Energy and
Wildlife Conservation Research Prize Deadline: June 29, 2007 Recognizes and supports a single innovative project that advances new technologies or contributes to making renewable energy. http://www.anheuser-busch.com/ |
Captain Planet Foundation Deadline: June 30, 2007 Funds hands-on environmental projects involving children and young adults in communities across the United States. http://www.captainplanetfdn.org/ |
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Horses & Humans Research
Proposal Deadline: June 30, 2007 Invites proposals to investigate the therapeutic effects of horses on humans. http://horsesandhumans.org/ |
Excellence in International
Education Youth Prize |
StraightForward Media Minority
Scholarship Deadline: June 30, 2007 Available to current and prospective students of color. http://www.straightforwardmedia.com/ |
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National Indian Youth Police
Academy Deadline: July 1, 2007 August 13-25, 2007 San Bernadino, CA Explore everything that policing has to offer as well as other criminal justice career opportunities www.niypa.com |
Free Summer program for Native
high school students |
Spiritual Encounters in the New
World Deadline: July 1, 2007 Conference date: October 18, 2007 University of Texas, Arlington Calling for papers that deal with spiritual exchanges between Europeans and Amerindians or Europeans and Africans since 1492. Contact Gregory Kosc at gkosc@uta.ed |
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Increasing Access to the Game of
Golf Deadline: July 6, 2007 Supports organizations that introduce the game to young people, minorities, disabled and others with limited access to the game of golf. http://www.usga.org// |
For the Good of the Game Grants |
STEP UP Camp for young women July 8 -14, 2007 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona Encouraging young high school women from minority populations to learn more about hands-on engineering. Contact: STEPUP@cens.nau.edu |
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Pacific Educational Conference
July 9–12, 2007 Honolulu, Hawai'i This year's conference theme is Language Acquisition: Knowledge that Empowers. Information: http://www.prel.org/pec2007/2007.asp |
Responding to Genocide Before
It's Too Late: Genocide Studies and Prevention |
Tribal Summit for American
Indian/Alaska Native Young Adults with Disabilities Dates: May 30 – June 1, 2007 Albuquerque, New Mexico Helps form partnerships designed to maximize resources and services to help AI/AN youth with disabilities. www.nihb.org |
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Grants to Improve Health of
Vulnerable Populations Deadline: July 10, 2007 Helps fund promising, original projects to significantly improve the health of vulnerable people in their communities. http://www.rwjf.org/ |
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Summer Institute for
Intercultural Communication Session I: July 11-13 Session II: July 16-20 Session III: July 23-25 and July 23-27 One-Day Workshops: Saturday, July 14 Internship Programs: July 4-21 and 8-15 Reed College, Portland, Oregon Workshops and seminars on topics that promote, diversity peace, productivity, and respect for our cultural differences http://www.intercultural.org |
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Sequoyah Graduate Fellowship Deadline: July 17, 2007 Open to full-time Native American and Alaskan Native students who are pursuing a graduate degree. http://www.indian-affairs.org |
NAPT 2007 Open Call for
Proposals |
For All My Relations Conference
Dates: July 12 – 14, 2007 Garden Grove, CA Focuses on topics that support and enhance family, community and culture. Website: www.nijc.org |
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"LINKING THE PLANET"
International Summer Language Camp Summer, 2007 SIBERIA Natasha Bodrova: cosmopolitan@online.nsk.su |
Lori Piestewa National Native
American Games |
Arizona Diamondbacks Native
American Day July 15th, 2007 Phoenix, AZ http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/ |
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2007 Indigenous Soccer Cup July 28-August 4 2007 University of New Mexico. Albuquerque Players must be registered members of an American Indian and or a Canadian Aboriginal tribe. There are four age categories: Under 14, under 16, under 19 and senior. http://www.aboriginalsportcircle.ca/ |
Infusing Cultural, Linguistic
and Ability Diversity in Preservice Education |
Second Annual Vine Deloria, Jr.
Indigenous Studies Symposium Date: July 26-28, 2007 Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, WA Brings together Native and non-Native scholars, elders, and other individuals to honor the life and work of Vine Deloria, Jr. Steve Pavlik: spavlik@gainusa.com |
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TAP's 2007 Art Contest Deadline: July 31, 2007, Open to all students currently enrolled in grades 1-4. http://www.teachersagainstprejudice.org |
Health Art Contest |
World Youth Congress August 2008 Quebec City, Canada A massive event and great celebration of the world's youth's contribution to the effort to eradicate poverty in our world. http://ga1.org/ct/zpwg-s91euKh/ |
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NCGLNAC Traditional Arts and
Crafts Workshops |
American Indian Center of
Chicago Art Contest |
Grants Target Education for
Disadvantaged Youth Deadline: August 3, 2007 December 7, 2007 Funds programs that provide job skills and/or education for all people, with special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. http://www.staplesfoundation.org/ |
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American Indian Film Festival Deadline: August 10, 2007 November 2-10 in San Francisco, California Seeking film and video entries for the nation's oldest and most prestigious venue for American Indian film arts and entertainment. http://www.aifisf.com/aifi/ |
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Lady Indians Summer CHAMPIONS
Basketball Camp May 29-June 1, 2007 Sequoyah, OK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ |
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The FBI Common Knowledge
Scholarship Foundation Promotes understanding what it means to work for the FBI as an agency and how to choose the agency as a career path. http://www.cksf.org |
Tint Magazine Internship |
MESBEC Scholarship |
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The Native Radio Theater Project Looking for future locations to host the Artist In Residency Program. Contact John Gregg, at (402) 472-0497, or e-mail: jgregg1@unl.edu |
Lynde and Harry Bradley
Foundation Grants Projects may address any arena of public life economics, politics, culture, or civil society where citizenship is an important issue. Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Grants |
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