This is the VOA Learning English Education Report.Getting a good education and good jobs have long been issues for Native Americans, many of whom live in poverty.Now president Barack Obama has announced a plan to better prepare young American Indians for colleges and careers.The announcement came as part of the recent White House Tribal Nations Conference in Washington.In June, Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle visited the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.The new plan is called the Generation Indigenous initiative.It calls for the Department of the Interior to provide $1.2 million to help six more tribes establish school systems run by the tribes.It also increases programs for teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and efforts to keep native languages from dying out.More than 30 percent of Americans have graduated from college.At the same time, only about 10 percent of American Indians are college graduates.Louis Walking Elk, however, is studying for a master degree in environmental science at Sitting Bull College in North Dakota.
