Improve Social
Well-being
Build financial knowledge and skills, for generating income and asset-building.
Enhance Moral
Well-being
Developing a moral character helps to achieve success and happiness.
Improve Economic
Well-being
The positive effects of developing and maintaining healthy relationships are endless.
Our Mission
Our mission is to implement the Tribe’s commitment to education which includes the enhancement of the social, moral, and economic well-being of the Coeur d’ Alene Tribe and its membership.
Our Programs
Investing in our people
We provide students with the academic and social skills necessary for a productive life in modern society as well as to be future leaders.
Five Core Values
The five pillars represent the heart of the Coeur d’ Alene people. It is our hope that these pillars are so deeply rooted in our children’s heart that we will see them carried out in a relational, reciprocal, respectful and responsible way for generations immemorial.
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Stewardship
To care for all things with integrity, responsibility, accountability and social awareness in all spheres of life, human, animals, natural resources, and the cosmos, looking at each other from the heart.
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Membership
Capable, decent, moral, ‘a good person’, a good citizen in your family, tribal, local and world community. A responsible, accountable and informed citizen in all spheres of relationship.
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Guardianship
To protect our tribal ways of knowing and being through the protection, care and responsibility for our people, natural resources, culture, history, traditions, language and spirituality.
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Scholarship
Life-long, holistic learning with ideas rooted in tribal values, self-determination, self-government and sovereignty that produces deep knowledge to understand the world and meaningful application within the community.
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Spirituality
Faith from which the Creator reveals the connection between all life. It unites the space between the past, present, and future through the peoples, environment, and land; and is rooted within the ceremonies from which the Tribe celebrates those connections.
Five Core Values Video
Summer Youth Internship 2022 Story Map
It’s finally here! Please take some time to look at the absolutely amazing, interactive Story-Map created for us by Martine and Camron from the Tribe’s GIS Department, which showcases all the incredible experiences students participated in during the Summer Youth Internship. Join us in celebrating the high quality work produced by our students in just four weeks! We’re grateful for everyone who took time out of their days and made this summer possible. lim lemtsh!
To view, click the link below. Best viewed on a larger screen. Content may take a while to load due to the amount of video/interactive material.