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Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would cut $1.8 million in funding each year for Native American students attending Fort Lewis College in Durango and could violate a 99-year-old Indian treaty.

Montana State University is adding two online Native American Studies courses this spring.

More than 3,000 people are expected in Milwaukee starting Thursday for the national convention of the National Indian Education Association.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday that sought to prevent a school district on a South Dakota Indian reservation from imposing a student dress code, saying the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe had withdrawn its support for the legal battle.

An education summit in Rapid City this month will focus on efforts to prevent American Indian students from dropping out of high school.

The State Law Library of Montana plans to unveil what it claims will be the nation's first comprehensive Internet portal on statewide Indian law by next January.

Education programs in Montana and six other states have been selected to receive nearly $3.8 million to provide training programs to recruit and graduate new American Indian teachers and school administrators.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says $500 million in federal stimulus money will go to American Indian tribes across the U.S. for schools, housing, infrastructure improvements and job programs on reservations.

An education instructional coach for the Great Falls schools, has been named the state's 2009 Indian Educator of the Year.