NOW WHAT? Eugenics at work on the Indigenous peoples, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Washington. The Gates Foundation is funding a massive educational effort, the Millennium Scholars program, to give scholarships to as many as 20,000 minority students, including American Indians. “This year 150 American Indian and Alaska Native students, representing communities from coast to coast, have been confirmed as Gates Millennium Scholars. These elite students, all rising college freshmen, will join approximately 850 other American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduates, graduate and doctoral degree candidates who will receive scholarship support from the Gates Millennium Scholars program (GMS) in the 2013-2014 academic year,” the foundation said. The Gates Foundation partners with the American Indian Graduate Center Scholars (AIGCS) to recruit, select and support American Indian and Alaska Native Gates Millennium Scholars. It has also funded the Potlatch Fund and in the past has helped the Navajo Nation with $6 million in grants to help bring computers to the reservation. Read more at indiancountrytodaymedianetwork/2013/08/08/top-5-philanthropy-foundations-make-native-education-priority-150789
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 01:18:33 +0000
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