Leadership

Features

• Learned Leadership: Preparing the next generation of tribal college administrators

  Wayne Stein

  Funded by the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Tomorrow’s Generation of Leaders offered participants an intensive summer program of seminars in leadership skills, college administration and political savvy. Taught by experienced tribal college presidents, faculty from Montana State University and legislative experts in Washington, D.C. the program was designed to give future leaders the knowledge that today’s leaders had to—sometimes painfully—learn for themselves.

• Tribal Colleges and Traditional Knowledge

  Vine Deloria, Jr.

  Tribal colleges may be the most important move­ment we have in Indian country today. In certain fundamental ways they are the only transitional institutions standing between the reservation popula­tion and the larger society that can bring services and information to Indian people.

• Going to Battle: Twila Martin considers the power and limitations of leadership

  Paul Boyer

  In an interview with TCJ, Twila Martin reflects on some of her experience as a politician, educator and social activist.

• Local Heroes: Three members of the Rosebud Sioux tribe lead by example

  Eric Haase

  Geraldine Arcoren, Ned Metcalf, and Duane Hollow Horn Bear, members of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, exemplify the strength of traditional values.

• The Key(board) to Success: Tribal college students spent a summer learning computer science and corporate life at the University of California

  Christine Gustafson

  Fifty American Indian students from 27 tribal and other community colleges around the United States trav­eled to the University of California at Irvine for the second annual American Indian Summer Institute In Computer Science.

• Wise Men and Elegant Speakers: Reflecting on traditional Assiniboine leadership

  James Shanley

  As reservations work to strengthen their communities, they are learning to draw inspiration from traditional conceptions of leadership.

• World Vision: The Lummi Nation thinks—and acts—globally

  Carolyn Casey

  The Lummi Nation has provided leadership and support for tribal groups around the world as they attempt to preserve their land and water.

• Betting on Their Future: Reservation casinos offer hope for tribal members and challenges for their leaders

  Karen Coates

  After decades of economic stagnation, American Indian communities nationwide are finding hope in the kind of glitter once reserved for Las Vegas and Atlantic City. The task of the tribes and, most especially, their colleges is to take advantage of the tremendous oppor­tunities casinos present while acknowledging the risks involved.

Profile

• Expecting More From Herself

  Marjane Ambler

  When Monica Whirlwind Horse was in high school, no one voted her “most likely to suc­ceed.” In fact, she dropped out of school before the vote was taken. “I was really wild, a terrible stu­dent, and I hated school,” she says. She was the type that teachers shake their heads over, and parents don’t want their children associating with.