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Students from Grifton School received an in-depth look at Greenville's firefighting and EMT services as part of the 2022 Grow Local program on Thursday, March 31. Students were able to get hands-on experience with paramedics, CPR, firefighting apparatus, firefighting PPE, and technical rescue during their time at Greenville's Fire/Rescue training center at Station 6.
Grow Local, organized by the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce, is an exciting initiative where Pitt County businesses open their doors to host local middle and high school students, providing them an experience to introduce, involve, inspire and invest in students and young adult lives. To learn more about the Grow Local program, please visit: www.greenvillenc.org/growlocal/
Dublin’s involvement in the First World War will be one of the main themes of the 2014 Dublin Festival of History, giving everyone with an interest in history the chance to discuss historical events with professional historians. The programme will feature renowned historians from abroad, including Alison Weir, Hew Strachan, Richard Evans, and Charles Spencer, as well as Irish historians such as Mary Daly, David Dickson and Sean Duffy.
Community members and leaders from the Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park neighborhood meet with their university counterparts at the second Community Connections Leadership Forum.
The forum was designed to foster collaborations between UTSC and Scarborough communities. It brought UTSC faculty, administrators and students together with community leaders to discuss ways of partnering on research and community development projects.
The Involvement Fair is where students can meet and connect with student leaders from various student organizations! The fair was organized by Student Life and held on Jan. 29, 2020 in the campus courtyard.
This Square Marque involves many techniques. First, is the structural design. The squares alternate sizes. Starting with a square, I drew the next one one grid from the side and two grids from the top. The next one switched to being two grids from the side and one grid from the top. Then I would go back and forth between the different distances. After that was all done I added the lines. The lines connect from one square to the next until the final rectangle. The lines are what allow the viewer see the picture two different ways. I saw it as either steps up to a pyramid or steps down an upside down pyramid. This can also be seen as coming forward or going in.
The next technique is also in the color theme: complimentary colors. The blue and orange compliment each other to catch the viewer’s eye. Also the blue layers spiral into the center gradually becoming lighter and lighter until reaching the white center point. Even though the colors are all blue and orange, the contrast varies as the shade of blue does.
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ICWA gives tribal governments a strong voice concerning child custody proceedings which involve Indian children, by allocating tribes exclusive jurisdiction over the case when the child resides on, or is domiciled on, the reservation, or when the child is a ward of the tribe; and concurrent, but presumptive, jurisdiction over non-reservation Native Americans’ foster care placement proceedings.[2]
Preservation of Indian Culture
Assimilation of Indians into U.S. Culture[edit] History
ICWA was enacted in 1978 because of the high removal rate of Indian children from their traditional homes and essentially from Indian culture as a whole. Before enactment, as many as 25 to 35 percent of all Indian children were being removed from their Indian homes and placed in non-Indian homes, with presumably the absence of Indian culture.[3][4] In some cases, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) paid the states to remove Indian children and to place them with non-Indian families and religious groups.[5] Testimony in the House Committee for Interior and Insular Affairs showed that in some cases, the per capita rate of Indian children in foster care was nearly 16 times higher than the rate for non-Indians.[6] If Indian children had continued to be removed from Indian homes at this rate, tribal survival would be threatened. Congress recognized this, and stated that the interests of tribal stability were as important as that of the best interests of the child.[7] One of the factors in this judgment was that, because of the differences in culture, what was in the best interest of a non-Indian child were not necessarily what was in the best interest of an Indian child, especially due to extended families and tribal relationships.[8]
As Louis La Rose (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) testified:
"I think the cruelest trick that the white man has ever done to Indian children is to take them into adoption court, erase all of their records and send them off to some nebulous family ... residing in a white community and he goes back to the reservation and he has absolutely no idea who his relatives are, and they effectively make him a non-person and I think ... they destroy him."[9]
Various other groups also played a factor. The LDS or Mormon Church had an Indian Placement Program that removed Indian children from their tribes and into church members homes. By the 1970s, approximately 5,000 Indian children were living in Mormon homes.[9] The lack of knowledge of most social workers also played into the high removal rates. Most social workers are conditioned by the "best interest of the child" as outlined by Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (Second Edition), which advocates bonding with at least one adult as a parent figure[10] rather than taking into consideration the tribal culture of the extended tribal family. The common Indian practice of leaving a child with an extended relative was viewed as abandonment by these well-intentioned social workers, but was viewed as perfectly normal by tribal members.[11]
During congressional consideration, at the request of Native American advocacy groups, opposition was raised by several states, the LDS Church, and several social welfare groups. The bill was pushed through by Representative Morris Udall of Arizona, who lobbied President Jimmy Carter to sign the bill.[9]
Congress’s overriding purpose in passing the ICWA was to protect Indian culture and tribal integrity from the unnecessary removal of Indian children by state and federal agencies. Awareness of the issues facing American Indian children came about from the advocacy and research by the Association on American Indian Affairs. Congress reasoned that “there is no resource that is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of Indian tribes than their children.”[12]
for more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Child_Welfare_Act
Community members and leaders from the Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park neighborhood meet with their university counterparts at the second Community Connections Leadership Forum.
The forum was designed to foster collaborations between UTSC and Scarborough communities. It brought UTSC faculty, administrators and students together with community leaders to discuss ways of partnering on research and community development projects.
On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, the City of Laredo and the Laredo International Airport proudly unveiled the Terminal Improvement Program, which involves a building expansion and reconfiguration. This project will involve the relocation and expansion of the TSA Security Screening Checkpoint (SSCP), remodeled and expanded restrooms, a dedicated meet and greet area, a nursing mother’s room, and an adult changing room as well as an improved concession space. These facilities and a roof replacement are proposed for this project. The project will cost approximately $35 million and will be a combination of federal and local funds. A 3D model of the terminal design was showcased during the event.
Students gather on the Shadow Lawn for the annual Involvement Fair where they get to peruse the various clubs and organizations available to them. September 14, 2022.