The BIE has responsibility for 184 elementary and secondary schools and dormitories as well as 24 colleges, and our Bureau-operated Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute. Our post-secondary institutions, schools and dormitories are located on 63 reservations in 23 states across the United States serving approximately 60,000 students representing 238 different tribes.

Providing quality education opportunities from early childhood through life in accordance with the tribe's needs for cultural and economic well-being and in keeping with the wide diversity of Indian Tribes and Alaska Native villages as distinct cultural and governmental entities. The BIE shall manifest consideration of the whole person, taking into account the spiritual, mental, physical and cultural aspects of the person within family and Tribal or Alaska Native village contexts.   More detail...