There are currently
over 500 Native American
students in the Auburn School District. Grades
of these students range from Head Start through Grade 12.
There are over 60 tribes represented in the Auburn School District.
The Muckleshoot Indian Nation represents the largest tribe with
approximately 200 enrolled Muckleshoot students in the school system.
Other tribes represented are: Aleut,
Apache, Arapahoe, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Calista Eskimo, Cherokee, Cheyenne
River Sioux, Chinook, Chippewa, Choctaw, Chugash (Alaska), Coeur d’Alene
(Idaho), Colville, Comanche, Coos/Umpqua/Siuslaw, Coquille (Oregon), Cowichan
(British Columbia, Canada), Dakota Sioux (Canada), Delaware (Oklahoma), Dot Lake
Village (Alaska), Grand Rhonde, Athabaskin, Haida, Inupiat Eskimo (Alaska),
Karuk (Alaska), Laguna, Lakota, Lummi, Makah, Navajo (Arizona), Nez Perce
(Idaho), Nisqually, Nooksack, Ogalla Sioux, Omaha (Nebraska), Oasage (Oklahoma),
Potawatami (Oklahoma), Puyallup, River Desert Band, Rosebud Sioux, San Pasqual
Band, Sitnas/Bering Strait (Alaska), Snoqualmie, Spokane, Standing Rock Sioux,
Steilacoom, Suquamish, Tla-O-Quiant (British Columbia, Canada), Tlingit
(Alaska), Towakan Pueblo, Trinidad Rancheria CCA, Tulalip, Turtle Mt. Chippewa,
Upper Skagit, Yakima, Yukip Eskimo (Alaska).
All tribes and nations are welcome and these students are valued in the
Auburn School District.
“Indian Education” is a
part of the public school system because of legislation by the United States
Government. Title IX laws state
that: “(1) the Federal Government
has a special responsibility to ensure that educational programs for all
American Indian and Alaska Native children and adults—(A) are based on high
quality, internationally competitive content standards and student performance
standards and build on Indian culture and the Indian community; (B) assist local
educational agencies, Indian tribes, and other entities and individuals in
providing Indian students the opportunity to achieve such standards; and “C)
meet the special educational and cultural related academic needs of American
Indian and Alaska Native students.”
News:
Contact:
Auburn School District Native American Education
915 4th Street
Northeast
Auburn, Washington 98002
(253) 931-4999
