Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School

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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). Located on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, it serves the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. It is nicknamed the "Bug School".

History

The school first opened in 1975. A new facility opened around 1985. It was built as a bus barn and school for automobile mechanics, and it got the name "pole barn". This facility served as the high school, while K-8 classes were in a separate facility that, by November 2014, was in a better condition.

Circa the 2000s the school community began advocating for a new school. In winter 2014, due to snow, a section of the roof collapsed. By 2015 the editorial board of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune advocated for an urgent replacement of the school. The editorial board cited a sewer system that fails during periods of extreme cold and periods of rodents causing infestations. Jill Burcum, the writer of the editorials, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize due to these stories.

In 2016 the United States Department of the Interior got a $12 million grant for a new school for Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig. The current $14,500,000 44,000-square-foot (4,100 m2) facility opened in 2018.

Student body

The high school building had about 100 students, and there were 200 students total for all of K-12, both in 2015.

Curriculum

In addition to traditional subjects, Native culture is heavily integrated into the school's programs, while school district-operated public schools mostly follow dominant Euro-American curriculum with some Native cultural units.

References

  1. ^ "Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School". Bureau of Indian Education. Retrieved 2021-08-11. 15353 Silver Eagle Drive NW, Bena, MN, 56626 - Despite the "Bena, MN" postal address, it is outside of the Bena city limis.
  2. ^ a b c d e "'We're going to school in a tin can'". Minneapolis Star Tribune. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  3. ^ a b "A welcome end to classes in a Leech Lake Reservation pole barn". Minneapolis Star Tribune. 2016-04-06. Archived from the original on 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  4. ^ "'Enigok. Nimisiwendaamin ji ayaamaangiban Oshki gikinoo-amaadiwigamig.' ('We really need a new school.')" (PDF). Minneapolis Star-Tribune. 2014-11-30. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  5. ^ a b "Separate and unequal: Indian schools, a nation's neglect". Minneapolis Star Tribune. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  6. ^ "Finalist: Jill Burcum of Star-Tribune, Minneapolis". Pulitzer Prize. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  7. ^ "New Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig school is complete but Bureau of Indian Education system is still crumbling". Minneapolis Star Tribune. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2021-08-11.

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