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Obama Announces Initiative to Lift Up Young Native Americans 奥巴马宣布提高美国印第安人的教育 This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语的经济报道。 Getting a good education and good jobs have long been issues for Native Americans, many of whom live in poverty. 长期以来，接受良好的教育，找到一份不错的工作是很多印第安人面临的问题，他们很多人生活贫困。 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. 奥巴马总统宣布一项方案，让年轻的印第安人能够为上大学和找工作做准备。这项议案是最近在华盛顿白宫召开的部落会议的一部分。 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. 六月，奥巴马和他的妻子米歇尔去参观访问北达科他州的岩印第安保留区Generation Indigenous的倡议。 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. 方案呼吁内政部提供120万美元来帮助六个部落来确立由他们部落运行的学校体系。同时还要增加教授科学、技术、工程和数学的项目，此外还要努力保留他们的本土语言，免于消亡。 More than 30 percent of Americans have graduated from college. At the same time, only about 10 percent of American Indians are college graduates. 大概有30%多的美国人从大学毕业，然而，大学毕业的土著印第安人却只有10%。 Louis Walking Elk, however, is studying for a master degree in environmental science at Sitting Bull College in North Dakota. He wants to use the degree to help people who live on his reservation. He is one of the first in his family to go to college. Louis Walking Elk在北达科他州的希亭布尔学院修读环境科学硕士学位。他想利用需所学的知识帮之他们那个保留地的居民。他是家族中最先上大学中的一个。 My dad especially. He didnt finish high school and he was always like, you have to do something, said Walking Elk. Walking Elk说：“我爸爸很特别，他没有上完高中，不过‘你得学点什么’。” Sitting Bull College is one of more than 30 tribal colleges in the United States. About 300 students are completing their higher education at the school. 希亭布尔学院是美国3