Office of Indian Education

Title VI funding — Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education —   is managed by the US Department of Education (ED), not the Arizona Department of Education.

Please contact our partners at  USED for information on the Title VI program. 

Contact Information - Electronic Application System for Indian Education (EASIE) 

ESSA Tribal Consultation -  Affected LEAs

The Office of Indian Education is preparing the FY22 list of Affected LEAs based on preliminary data from the US Dept of Education. 

FY22 Affected LEAs

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Tribes have established Stay-At-Home orders for their community. The Stay-At-Home order status of each Tribe can be found within the chart below. If interested in learning more about a specific Tribe, feel free to select a Tribal Nation's name below to visit their respecitve online website. Please note that these orders are subject to change - If you would like to report a change, please email [email protected].

The American Indian Student Needs (AISN) is a competitive grant for public school districts used for school supplies for federally recognized American Indian students. Interest accrued on the SekvensTrust Fund provides the funding source for this grant.  This grant becomes available once a significant amount of interest has accrued to warrant opening the grant for competition (anticipated in FY25). 

*** Currently there are insufficient funds to open the grant. 

There are 22 federally recognized Tribes in Arizona. Most of these tribes have a Tribal Education Department (TED), a Tribal Education Director, or someone from their Tribal leadership assigned to education if the Tribe is smaller. Some tribes solely contain schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Education.

The Tribal College Dual Enrollment Program provides Arizona’s high school students the opportunity to take college courses for both high school and college credit. Course costs are free to the student. Participating tribal colleges are reimbursed for tuition and fees associated with participating students. Effective September 24, 2022, the Arizona state legislature passed SB1300, allowing the Arizona Department of Education to reimburse the cost of books and instructional materials. 

Johnson-O’Malley (JOM) is a federal program whose main objective is to ensure Indian children receive educational opportunities that would not otherwise be provided through the public school system. JOM is a supplemental program providing special services to Indian students based on the needs of individual communities.

How to Challenge Misconceptions of Native Americans 

• Video: Changing the Way We See Native Americans
• Article: What’s Wrong with this Diorama?
   

Lessons Learned from a Non-Native Teacher 

ADE's Office of Indian Education (OIE) is working with tribes across the state to support the continued education of students in our tribal nation communities. The following resources include additional supports for tribal communities and families.