How Did Tribal Education Affect American Natives

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Introduction:
Description of how the colonization of the Americas affected American and Alaskan Natives.
Slavery, mistreatment, expulsion of Natives of their lands to reservations
Promising treaties that the government did with the Natives Americas but that were always violated.
Relationship of the government of the United States and the tribal governments.
Tribal governance have the power to determine their own government, pass laws and enforce laws.
Federal government intervention of the self-determination of tribal governments and gives funding to all programs that are running in the reservations.

Thesis:
The major issues that American and Alaskan Natives are facing today are: Education retirement, economic problems, health issues,
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Tribal schools lack essentials tools to provide a good education do to insufficient funding from the federal government.
Tribal school have the highest dropout rates and lowest graduation rates in high schools among the whole population of the U.S.A.
High school graduates do not receive the appropriate classes that are needed in college, which affects their development of learning and experience during college. This also leads students to drop out of college.
Bureau of Indian Education (BIE): Institution created by the federal government to manage and provide education to Native and Alaskan students.
Poor management of federal funding, too much expending per students.
Defined by the Natives Americans as a bureaucracy that is not accomplishing correctly its responsibilities.

Acknowledgements for Claim 1:
An Report made by the Bureau of Indian Education indicates that the tribal schools improved or maintained stable in a period of four years.

Claim 2: Economic Problems
Unemployment and poverty that affects the majority of people living in the tribal

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