Recently, I announced that I will be transitioning out as Tribal College Journal’s publisher to pursue other professional and personal avenues. It was a hard decision to make because I know how much I will miss it.
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Year in Review: The Most-Read Articles of 2019
Tribal College Journal’s articles are read across multiple platforms, sharing Indigenous perspectives and the success of the tribal college movement. Here are our most popular pieces of the past year.
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TCUs’ Extensive Offerings Address the Whole Student
One of Tribal College Journal’s most popular website pages is the interactive map of tribal colleges and the guide to TCU degree programs.
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A Future and Past in the Clouds
Recently we decided to close Tribal College Journal’s safe deposit box at the bank. We had maintained it for many years because that’s where we stored our offsite backup files.
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Real Change is Possible With Everyone’s Support
November 7, 2018, marked a series of historic firsts for Native American women. Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) and Debra Halaand (Laguna) were the first Native women to be elected to Congress,
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Time to Choose Priorities, Stay Focused
The first three months of the year is our busiest quarter. One event we look forward to in the spring is the annual American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Conference.
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There Is Hope For a More Equitable Future
Although some argue that everyone has equal opportunity and equal status in America, women, and especially American Indian women, are greatly underrepresented in top leadership positions.
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50 Year Vision: What Does the Future Hold for Tribal Colleges and Universities?
Tribal educators and leaders look into the future and give us their vision of where they see American Indian education 50 years from now.
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It Can Take Courage to Make Simple Changes
As this issue was going to press, our hearts skipped a beat when the computer that we use to design the magazine suddenly and without warning crashed.
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Keep Power in the Hands of the People
In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission ruled in favor of net neutrality, endeavoring to ensure equal access to all lawful web content by preventing internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon and AT&T from charging for better delivery of content or for giving priority to certain websites.
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Diverse Media Voices Needed Now More Than Ever
In a world filled with soundbites and clickbait headlines, we are missing stories about what’s really important. We get distracted by social media battles and Hollywood shenanigans and we lose sight of what’s really happening.
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Falling into Place: A Memoir of Overcoming
By Hattie Kauffman
Baker Books (2013)
240 pages
Review by Rachael Marchbanks
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Congratulations Tribal College Graduates
The spring quarter is a busy time here at Tribal College Journal. Our full calendars help us ignore the blustery weather when we have so much to look forward to in the coming months.
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A Traveling Education Endures
For one of this issue’s web exclusive features we created a slideshow of Katrina Montoya’s photos from the first World Indigenous Games, which was held this past fall in Palmas,
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Financial and Moral Support Keys to Success
As winter break approaches, students everywhere are working to finish up the semester. Those who are seeking to go to college, to transfer between colleges,
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Sinte Gleska Students Get Hands-on Biotechnology Training


Students worked under the mentorship of BHSU faculty and students learning how to use bioinformatics tools and DNA extraction procedures using water and soil samples collected from the Rosebud Reservation.
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2015 TCJ Student Competition Gets Better and Better
The TCJ Student competition submissions just get better and better. This year, by partnering with the annual AIHEC student conference, we received an unprecedented number of art and film entries from tribal college students.
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A Heartfelt Thank You to the Leaders of TCUs
“True leaders must rise above themselves and the positions they hold.” – Joseph M. Marshall III
Good governance happens when there is good leadership,
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The Borderline: Indigenous Communities on the International Frontier

Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, and the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, a simple T-shirt began appearing at reservation flea markets,
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New and Returning Items Stay True to Our Core Mission
You may have noticed some recent upgrades and changes in both the print and online editions of Tribal College Journal. As noted in the last issue,
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Verbal Prowess on Display at Poetry Slam
The spoken word is powerful. It has the ability to inspire, heal, and bring us closer together. At the first annual TCJ-AIHEC poetry slam this March,






