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A number of tribal college staff, faculty, and senior administrators offer their advice to anyone starting a tribal college.
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Collaborating For Change: New Directions for Meeting the Higher Education Needs of Urban Americans
By Margaret Peake Raymond, Project Coordinator (1999).
Review by Gregory Gagnon
This report summarizes and presents the recommendations from a two-year project of the American Indian Urban Higher Education Initiative.
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Cultural Brokers: Explaining “Them” and “Us” in Indian Country
Cultural brokers explain and often justify one culture to another. They are interpreters in the broadest sense. In American Indian history this role was often assumed by the traders, by Indian women who married Euro-Americans, and by the mixed bloods who often assumed positions in each culture.
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Chief Red Fox is Dead, A History of Native Americans Since 1945
by James J. Rawls
Harcourt Brace, 1996Review by Greg Gagnon
The most neglected area of American Indian studies is the contemporary survey.
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Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War
By Laurence M. Hauptman, The Free Press, 1995. 304 Pages.
Review by Greg Gagnon
Between Two Fires is not a seminal study,
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Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
by Vine Deloria, Jr.
New York, New York: Scribner, 1995. 286 pagesReview by Gregory Gagnon
Vine Deloria Jr.
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Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions
By Robert Allen Warrior
University of Minnesota Press, 1995
160 pagesReview by Gregory Gagnon
American Indian Intellectuals: Are They Above Reproach,
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Indians of North America
Frank Porter III, General Editor
Chelsea House PublishersReview by Gregory Gagnon
History Lessons
American Indian people and teachers have long lamented the absence of respectfully written histories of Indian peoples that are also dependably researched.
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Legal Limits: Four books, each with a weakness, explore tribal law and government
Review by Greg Gagnon, Oglala Lakota College
A major problem faced by teachers of tribal government is the absence of a textbook which meets the needs of beginning students.
