Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota series: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Event
The crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is the culmination of a spectrum of violence perpetrated disproportionately against...
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Alissa Thiele
- May 2
- 3 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Spirit Lake Nation
(Word pronunciations are available when the text is the color purple.) The Spirit Lake tribe, also pronounced as Mni (water) Wakan ("pure...
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Alissa Thiele
- Apr 20
- 4 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: One with the Earth
The truth is that for Indigenous People, EVERY DAY is EARTH DAY! Chief Seattle in his Treaty Oration of 1854: “Every part of this soil is...
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Alissa Thiele
- Apr 18
- 3 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (in the Dakota Language: Sisituŋwaŋ-Waĥpetuŋwaŋ), are located on the Lake Traverse Reservation. This...
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Alissa Thiele
- Apr 7
- 4 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
North Dakota Ojibwe call themselves “Anishinaabe” which means “original people”. Other indigenous persons and Europeans mispronounced...
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Alissa Thiele
- Mar 25
- 4 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series - MHA Nation
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes) is located on the Fort Berthold Reservation in central North Dakota...
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Alissa Thiele
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series
The people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe are members of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota (meaning “friends” or “allies”) nations. Just as...
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Alissa Thiele
- Feb 2
- 1 min
Extended School Program Summer and Fall Registration
CREA Extended School Program (ESP) has announced its Summer and Fall Registration dates. **Please note that only Lincoln's site will...
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Alissa Thiele
- Jan 31
- 2 min
Indigenous 101 - North Dakota Essential Understandings
“Contrary to Hollywood’s definition of beauty, the more wrinkles our elders have, the more beautiful they become to us. The lines of...
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Alissa Thiele
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Indigenous 101
DID YOU KNOW? Within the boundaries of North Dakota, there are five federally-recognized tribes. In total, there are more than 31,000...
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Alissa Thiele
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota Series
Did You Know: Verbal communication is the predominant and preferred form of communication for many Native American tribes and Indigenous...
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Alissa Thiele
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series
Although our state’s K-12 social studies standards and required U.S. and North Dakota history courses have long included instruction on...
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Alissa Thiele
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota
CREA’s Multi-Cultural Programs offer opportunities to help educators integrate multicultural and diversity education into their...
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Alissa Thiele
- Jul 29, 2021
- 2 min
Foundations of Reading Series
“We teach reading in different ways; they (students) learn to read proficiently in only one way.” David Kilpatrick. The 1997 National...
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Alissa Thiele
- Jul 27, 2021
- 4 min
Meet Our New Staff
CREA has added several new staff to our team. Take a moment to read a little about them. Laura Beach, PD Specialist My name is Laura...
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Alissa Thiele
- Apr 30, 2021
- 1 min
CREA Spring Reading Contest
Congratulations to all of the students at Sweet Briar and Little Heart Elementary schools for their reading accomplishments. Sweet Briar...
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Alissa Thiele
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
ND eCare School Health Program
The ND eCare School Health Program provides all day access to experienced school nurses, using real-time audio/video technology. The...
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Alissa Thiele
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
STOPit Solutions - Anonymous Reporting System
We know the novel coronavirus has upended life as we know it, but did you know that it has also created a shift in our mental health?...
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Alissa Thiele
- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
EL Services: Tracking the Progress of English Learners
As the end of 2020 draws near, schools across ND will begin gearing up for ACCESS testing, set to begin on January 11, 2021 and ending on...
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Alissa Thiele
- Nov 10, 2020
- 2 min
Kidder County Finds Success with Math Corps Program
Only 34% of our nation’s eighth-grade students are proficient in math (NAEP 2017), representing a critical roadblock to high school...
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