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Sitting in on a tribal college or university (TCU) gathering inevitably involves listening to a story. How each institution was created and has grown often makes for intriguing tales about people,
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Navajo Tech Students Win Culinary Honors
By Tina Deschenie
Winning top awards has become a ritual for students in the culinary arts and professional baking classes at Navajo Technical College (NTS,
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Perseverance Deserves Celebration
Last May, I was privileged to watch the Diné College graduation in Tsaile, AZ, where over 200 students walked in the ceremony, many resplendent in their traditional dress and turquoise jewelry.
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Jessie McDonald: Determined Student Leader Lives Life Her Way
Multi-tasking young mother Jessie McDonald has big dreams and encourages everyone around her to dream big, too.
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Red Sweat and Guts: Our athletes love to play
This issue tells the stories of Native students who play hard. The passion of these tribal college and university (TCU) athletes became all the more evident to me as I read numerous stories about them in other publications.
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People of the Whale
by Linda Hogan
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (2008)Review by Tina Deschenie
This book brings you deep into the realm of a people who have ancient,
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We All Must Learn to Live Respectfully
“Going green” is a multifaceted concept and includes analyzing how we relate to our environment: how we live, what we eat, what we wear, what we drive, and how we build.
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Sports Drove Silva to Teach Wellness
Native American Community Academy teacher Leroy Silva hopes that more Native students will take on the challenge of pursuing higher education “because our communities need us to pave a brighter future for generations to come.”
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Native Students Express Themselves: Literature, Politics, New Media
The Fall 2008 issue of TCJ focuses on Native media and highlights the dizzying pace of change with the growing numbers of Native websites and a fast-growing, vibrant cyberspace community. This issue also includes TCJ Student Writing Contest winners and photos from the annual American Indian Higher Education Consortium Conference in Bismarck, N.D.
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Tribal Colleges Nurture Seeds Today, To Reap Qualified Graduates Tomorrow
This issue takes a hard look at the nuts and bolts of accountability in our colleges. But before you tackle the complex mechanics of assessment and accreditation,
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Tribal College Profiles: Karl Duncan and Elijah Hopkins
Interviews with AIHEC student congress leaders Karl Duncan and Elijah Hopkins reveal lessons learned, confidence gained, and challenges overcome.
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Our Names, Our Selves
In our deepest intelligence we know this: that names and being are indivisible. That which has no name cannot truly be said to exist,
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Why Save A Language?
27 minutes
Directed and produced by Sally Thompson, Ph.D.
Regional Learning Project (2006)
The University of Montana
Center for Continuing EducationReview by Tina Deschenie
In this short passionate film,
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Why We Are Sticking To Our Stories
On winter nights when we were snug in our beds in the darkness after the kerosene lamp was blown out, my father would start telling us stories about Má’ii, or Coyote, and his adventures.
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It Takes the Tribal Colleges: Honoring Native Intellect and Talent
Think a colorful, distinctive parade of tribal college banners; back-to-back student academic, art, and cultural competitions; workshops featuring an array of inviting topics; a powwow;
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Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools
Students in tribal college communities are learning about diabetes, and their response will affect students nationwide in a few years. The Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools (DETS) program involves eight tribal colleges that are developing diabetes-based science curriculum for K-12 students with grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Community Health and Wellness Start With Our Individual Commitment
In indigenous society, the belief that people can overcome our problems through ceremony and prayer has always been very powerful. Sitting Bull and his wife,
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Writing the Cross Culture, Native Fiction on the White Man’s Religion
Edited by James Treat
Fulcrum Publishing (2006)
Golden, CO
187 pages ISBN 1-55591-541-8
Softcover $15.95Review by Tina Deschenie
John Trudell’s song lyrics for “Indians are Jesus” and the 26 stories written by known Native American writers explore conflicts and connections between Christianity and Native life.
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Accelerating Native Prosperity Takes All of Us
This issue features the efforts of five tribal colleges to impact their local communities both directly and indirectly; the impact of the Johnson Scholarship Foundation; and Paul Boyer writes about economic development and gaming.
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Indigenous Evaluation Can Decolonize Us
I am excited about the American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s (AIHEC)’s new initiative on indigenous evaluation, perhaps because, in recent years, I have been fortunate to observe firsthand how indigenous perspectives can be used to evaluate education.
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Greetings from New Editor
Bookworm that I am, I greatly enjoyed being guest editor for this year’s TCJ Student Edition. The student writings reflect an incredible mix of ideas and experiences.
