Edited by Lisa Crowshoe, Inge Genee, Mahalia Reddle, Joslin Smith, and Conor Snoek
Northern Arizona University (2021)
194 pages
Review by Janine Pease
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Sustaining Indigenous Languages: Connecting Communities, Teachers, and Scholars
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Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
By Jenny L. Davis
University of Arizona Press (2018)
170 pages
Review by Janine Pease
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AIHEC and the Development of American Indian Higher Education Policy, 1974-1978
AIHEC has always been highly effective and influential in policy formation. This original research study investigates the organization’s early strategies.
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AIHEC on the Rise: Passage of the Tribally Controlled Community College Act of 1978
Longtime TCU leader Janine Pease investigates all of the hard work and obstacles that were overcome to achieve this historic legislation.
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New Voices, Ancient Words: Language immersion produces fluent speakers, stronger personal and cultural identities
Language immersion not only saves languages and cultures. It also may reverse dismal student test scores and restore fractured families and communities.
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Bringing Thunder: Tribal colleges presidents explore indigenous New Zealand
A cadre of tribal college presidents, faculty, and staff visited Aotearoa, New Zealand, the home of the Maori, touring their educational facilities, including K-13 language immersion schools and Maori-controlled colleges. Janine Pease-Pretty on Top recounts the experience and describes coming away with a new understanding of what it means to be “indigenous.”





