The forest has sustained the Menominee people since time immemorial. Now, the College of Menominee Nation is working to conserve forest resources for future generations.
A Haskell graduate offers some tips to help guide tribal college students interested in taking their education to the next level.
Grant opportunities from a variety of sources, enabled Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College to preserve tribal history for instructional use and posterity.
Working with local stakeholders, Alaska’s only tribal college is forging new opportunities for its students.
New changes in the Veterans Administration have improved access for Native American VA claimants and tribal colleges can play an important role.
Faculty at College of Menominee Nation employ the humanities as a means of raising interest in the STEM fields.
Stone Child College spent three years developing a comprehensive curriculum on historical trauma with the ultimate goal of individual and community healing.
A college education is about more than just job preparation. Oglala Lakota College’s leadership and management graduate program stresses traditional Lakota values by encouraging students to give back to their community.
At Cankdeska Cikana Community College, an introduction to community and public health class empowers students.
One tribal college’s exemplary lay advocate program offers legal training for its students—and illustrates how American Indian nations can broaden legal representation for Native defendants in tribal courts.
Connecting with the community often means reaching out to the most marginalized individuals. Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College has done just that in developing a new program that paves a road to redemption for Native inmates in Wisconsin’s state prisons.
Educators should consider alternative strategies when teaching writing skills at tribal colleges.
Searching globally for teaching methodologies in statistics proved rewarding at Aaniiih Nakoda College.
When partnering with non-profits, TCUs face challenges that require innovative thinking and program design.
Creative projects in an otherwise text-heavy Introduction to Humanities course reveal the artistic process and offer an avenue of expression to students.
In my most successful teaching moments I become invisible. I witness students light up with enthusiasm as they share their stories and go on to mentor others. A sense of power and pride wells up in them. They embrace their ancestors’ rich traditions and carry that knowledge forward as their own. These are the moments I strive for, but they are not easily attained. It has taken me years of practice.
The Master of Arts degree program in human services at Sinte Gleska University on South Dakota’s Rosebud Sicangu Lakota reservation has enjoyed success delivering an exciting and relevant graduate program in tribal and behavioral health.
Offering young adult literature that features Native American protagonists promotes cultural identity, validates their own experiences, and motivates them to read.
An intense, well-designed collaborative effort yields a better reflection of student gains in writing and and gives middle, high school, and college teachers and staff a chance to share strategies and goals.
At a time when American Indians are drastically underrepresented in the hard sciences, and as federal agencies show interest in addressing the issue, Salish Kootenai College’s success in starting a four-year life sciences degree program virtually from scratch can offer guidance to other tribal colleges wishing to establish similar programs.
Recently, I witnessed many Native people of all ages and tribes sharing Native intellectual knowledge of generosity, talent, leadership, and spirituality at the gathering of the Woksape Oyate. Lakota for “Wisdom of the People,” Woksape Oyate is a project of the American Indian College Fund meant to build intellectual capital at tribal colleges.
Students and faculty at the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN, Okmulgee, OK) created a service learning project last school year that linked students with community elders, and they hope the project will provide a model for future projects.
Dissertation research on non-native faculty at tribal colleges identifies ways administrators can offer support.
Grant-funded literary discussion project brings students, college employees, and community members together to discuss shared challenges of preserving American Indian identity in a society of cultural assimilation.
A Haskell instructor reflected on how traditional knowledge was passed on and preserved at her family gatherings.
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