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Contacts|Oregon Tribes Map| Oregon State University Extended Campus
4943 The Valley Library, Corvallis, OR 97331-4504 | 800-667-1465 | 541-737-2676
Copyright 2006 Oregon State University | Disclaimer

"The concept of American Indian cultural curriculum emerged not out of educational fads or efforts to be politically correct. It was inspired by the failure of educational institutions to successfully educate American Indian children. Alarming drop out statistics demonstrate the mainstream educational system's inability by academic standards to educate Indian people." Marjane Ambler^¹

The nearest Indian colleges to Oregon are Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Washington, seven Indian Colleges in Montana, two in Arizona and two in New Mexico.

Estimating the potential number of students at each Tribe is difficult. Education Directors have offered numbers ranging from 3 students at a 300 member Tribe, 70 students at a 4000 member Tribe, and 30 students at a 700 member Tribe. That range equates to 1 to 4 percent of the Tribal membership attending at any one time. (The total American college population is approximately 6%.) There are 22,528 enrolled Tribal members in Oregon (2005-2007 Oregon Directory of American Indian Resources)^² which would provide a potential student population of 225 to 900 students.

Our sense is that the potential student population will be higher than current enrollment, especially when various certification programs are available for employees to upgrade their job skills and adult learners with families are accommodated.

We recommend using a conservative 2% of the enrolled population of the 9 recognized Tribes in Oregon, 458 students, plus 20 students at each of three urban sites (60) for a total of 518 students as a benchmark for this feasibility study. There are 45,211 self-described Indian people in Oregon according to the 2000 census, some portion of these would qualify under federal guidelines for higher education support as being 1/4 blood quantum or enrolled in a recognized Tribe^³ outside of Oregon, and a reasonable assumption can be made that these Indian people living mostly in urban areas would have a similar interest in higher education.

Endnotes

1 Marjane Ambler, The Tribal College Journal, Volume IX Fall 1997, Number 2.
http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org/themag/backissues/fall97/fall97ee.html

2 2005 - 2007 Oregon Directory of American Indian Resources, Oregon Legislative Commission on Indian Services,
http://www.leg.state.or.us/cis/odair/directory.htm .

3 Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Indian Education Programs
http://www.oiep.bia.edu/faqs_grantinfo.html

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"The concept of American Indian cultural curriculum emerged not out of educational fads or efforts to be politically correct. It was inspired by the failure of educational institutions to successfully educate American Indian children. Alarming drop out statistics demonstrate the mainstream educational system's inability by academic standards to educate Indian people." Marjane Ambler^¹

The nearest Indian colleges to Oregon are Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Washington, seven Indian Colleges in Montana, two in Arizona and two in New Mexico.

Estimating the potential number of students at each Tribe is difficult. Education Directors have offered numbers ranging from 3 students at a 300 member Tribe, 70 students at a 4000 member Tribe, and 30 students at a 700 member Tribe. That range equates to 1 to 4 percent of the Tribal membership attending at any one time. (The total American college population is approximately 6%.) There are 22,528 enrolled Tribal members in Oregon (2005-2007 Oregon Directory of American Indian Resources)^² which would provide a potential student population of 225 to 900 students.

Our sense is that the potential student population will be higher than current enrollment, especially when various certification programs are available for employees to upgrade their job skills and adult learners with families are accommodated.

We recommend using a conservative 2% of the enrolled population of the 9 recognized Tribes in Oregon, 458 students, plus 20 students at each of three urban sites (60) for a total of 518 students as a benchmark for this feasibility study. There are 45,211 self-described Indian people in Oregon according to the 2000 census, some portion of these would qualify under federal guidelines for higher education support as being 1/4 blood quantum or enrolled in a recognized Tribe^³ outside of Oregon, and a reasonable assumption can be made that these Indian people living mostly in urban areas would have a similar interest in higher education.

Endnotes

1 Marjane Ambler, The Tribal College Journal, Volume IX Fall 1997, Number 2.
http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org/themag/backissues/fall97/fall97ee.html

2 2005 - 2007 Oregon Directory of American Indian Resources, Oregon Legislative Commission on Indian Services,
http://www.leg.state.or.us/cis/odair/directory.htm .

3 Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Indian Education Programs
http://www.oiep.bia.edu/faqs_grantinfo.html