Wabanaki Educators Share Learning Initiatives at NIEA Convention
On October 10th, Barbara Dore and Seana MacKeldey, language and culture teachers at Sipayik Elementary School, and Lee Francis, principal at Indian Island School, presented at the 55th Annual National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Convention in Palm Springs, California, with their session Centering Wabanaki History, Culture, and Life in Every Classroom. They shared the history of LD 291 An Act to Require Teaching of Maine Native American History and Culture, which passed in 2001.