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Chief Leschi Schools is a Native American tribal school located in the Puyallup Valley near Mount Rainier in Washington. It is a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m 2) facility which is intended to be a model for Native American education. The current building opened in 1996 serving Native American students from 92 different bands which comprise the ...
Chief Leschi ( / ˈlɛʃaɪ /; Lushootseed: ləšx̌iʔ; [1] c. 1808 – February 19, 1858) was a chief of the Nisqually Indian Tribe of southern Puget Sound, Washington, primarily in the area of the Nisqually River . Following outbreaks of violence and the Yakima Wars (1855–1858), as a leader Leschi was charged with the killings of two ...
Leschi, Seattle. / 47.60028°N 122.29278°W / 47.60028; -122.29278. Leschi is a neighborhood in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Located on the western shore of Lake Washington, the residential neighborhood was named by its 19th-century developer for Chief Leschi of the Nisqually tribe, who was executed by territorial ...
The school was established circa 1973 by tribal members who were not satisfied with their children's course in the Nye County School District. The school board was established on July 26 of that year, and it opened on November 26 of that year after the United States Office of Education granted $35,000. In 1975 its student count was 21.
Chief Leschi. On Tuesday evening, Nisqually Indian Tribe government liaison Hweqwidi Hanford McCloud appeared before the Lakewood City Council to announce an honor walk for Leschi on Jan. 27.
Bethel School District. Bethel School District No. 403 is a public school district in Pierce County, Washington, USA and serves 200 square miles (520 km 2) of unincorporated Pierce County including Spanaway, Graham, Kapowsin and the city of Roy. Bethel was unique in the way that its high schools served grades 10-12 as opposed to the traditional ...
Coordinates: 47.3613°N 94.3074°W. Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School is a K-12 tribal school in unincorporated Cass County, Minnesota, near Bena. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [1] Located on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, [2] it serves the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. It is nicknamed the "Bug School".
The Peninsula School District is the main school district for the city of Gig Harbor, Washington, USA and the unincorporated areas around Gig Harbor and the Key Peninsula. These areas include Artondale , Arletta , Rosedale , Purdy , Wollochet , Vaughn , Lakebay , Longbranch , Home , Wauna , Crescent Valley and the Kopachuck area.