Volume 35, No. 1 – Fall 2023
Establishing meaningful partnerships between tribes, TCUs, and mainstream universities that are informed by Native knowledge can enhance tribal sovereignty and mitigate some of the intractable problems afflicting Native nations.
From its modest origins as the Navajo Skill Center in 1979, Navajo Technical University now boasts an array of programs and has elevated Native ways of knowing with its new Doctor of Philosophy degree in Diné culture and language sustainability.
At Turtle Mountain Community College, new courses and a baccalaureate program in Indigenous mathematizing are intrinsically connected to place, language, and culture, being predicated on thinking, doing, living, and being.
The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is clear—unless we take immediate action, it will be too late. Key to that is embracing and elevating Native ways of knowing, and tribal colleges must play a central role.
In this TCJ-exclusive interview, the longtime Haskell professor discusses why Native ways of knowing are more critical now than ever. Play Audio
Incorporating Native ways of knowing into curricula is standard practice at TCUs. But there are great benefits of doing so at non-Native institutions as well.
Oral traditions, winter counts, and the pictographic record offer insights into Lakota and Dakota history and sacred sites. This original study highlights and preserves place-based, ancient stories of emergence.
In case you missed it at the AIHEC student conference, check out the final three rounds of this year’s poetry slam, only at TCJStudent.org. Play Video
Introducing this issue on Native ways of knowing, the Sitting Bull College president and TCJ advisory board member discusses how tribal colleges are preserving and perpetuating Indigenous values for the wider world.
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University of Arizona Press (2022)
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