Volume 21 Spring Issue No. 3

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURES

Medaling in Education – Elder of the Year teaches TCU students to walk on both sides
By Luella Brien (Crow)
Joseph Medicine Crow inspires students with his groundbreaking achievements and service as a Little Big Horn College adjunct instructor and lifelong educator.

Under the IAIA Dome – Acclaimed filmmaker inspires students to tell stories with new media
By Janet Freeman
J. Carlos Peinado envisions the new dome at the Institute of American Indian Arts as a fantastic storytelling device, a “virtual kiva.”

To Publish or Not to Publish – Some faculty choose not to publish while others see advantages
By Joanna Vance, Ph.D.
Do tribal college faculty members need to publish research papers in academic journals? The author surveys faculty, researchers, and administrators to examine this question.

Heart to Heart, Student to Student
By Marjane Ambler
For too long, federal agencies have imposed their own solutions on tribal colleges – and young people. This peer-to-peer project attempts to change that.

Scenes from the American Indian College Fund 20th Anniversary Gala
Photos by Zach Singer, Jaime Aguilar, and Kurt Umbhau
This photo compilation of the 20th Anniversary Gala celebrates the College Fund’s success.

DEPARTMENTS

Storymakers
Letters to the Editor
Editor’s Essay By Kurt Umbhau
Profile: Ron Jackson (Assiniboine) By Jerry Worley, Ph.D.
Talking Circle By Pam Tambornino (Cherokee)
On Campus
Media Reviews By Deborah Kelley-Galin; Dr. Ofer Shir; Dr. Donal Lindsey; and Michael W. Simpson, J.D.
Voices By U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI)
Advertising Index

ON THE WEB: Resource Guide
By Joanna Vance, Ph.D.

ON THE COVER: SMOKE SIGNALS. Joe Medicine Crow, historian and educator, points his pipe toward the four winds as he performs a Crow Indian Pipe Invocation during the opening of the Warriors in Education Institute at Montana State University, Billings, MT, July 10, 2006. Photo by James Woodcock, Billings Gazette.