Mescalero Apache Schools (MAS), also known as Mescalero Apache School, is a tribal K-12 school in unincorporated Otero County, New Mexico, associated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). It is of the Mescalero Apache tribe.

It is outside of the Mescalero census-designated place although it has a Mescalero post office address.[1]

In 2011 it had about 500 students.[2]

History

In 1954 the tribe asked for the school to be placed in the Otero County school system.[3]

By 2009 there was an epidemic of suicides among young people on the reservation.[4] By September 2009, Mescalero Apache School established a suicide crisis center.[5] Additionally the U.S. Department of Education in 2010 gave the school $48,000 for suicide prevention programs.[6]

Curriculum

Every student in elementary and middle school must take classes in the Apache language, and every high school student must take at least one year of Apache language classes. In the early 1990s the school introduced Apache language classes.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Home". Mescalero Apache Schools. Retrieved 2021-07-29. 249 White Mountain Drive Mescalero, NM 88340
    Compare to: "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Mescalero CDP, NM" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2021-07-29. - Pages: 1, 2, and 3
  2. ^ a b Romo, Rene (2011-11-09). "Mescalero Apaches work to save language". Native Times. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  3. ^ "Too Early Turnover of Indian Affairs May Be Harmful, Say Apaches". Alamogordo Daily News. 1954-12-05. p. 5. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "8:30am — Mescalero Mourns 4th Suicide in 2 Months". Albuquerque Journal. 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  5. ^ "8:15am — Crisis Center To Address Mescalero Suicides". Albuquerque Journal. 2009-09-16. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  6. ^ "Mescalero Schools Get Suicide Prevention Funds". Albuquerque Journal. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2021-07-29.

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