Tribal Colleges Looking to the Future

Features

• The Eagle Spreads Its Wings: Self governance may be the first step towards real tribal sovereignty

  Carolyn Casey

  Last year the Self Governance Demonstration Project launched in 1987 was declared a success and made permanent by an act of Congress. Today there are 186 federally recognized tribes and Alaskan Native villages in self governance agreements with the federal government. If the Alaskan villages are not counted individually, there are 49 tribes in self governance.

• The Broken Covenant: American Indian missions in the colonial colleges

  Bobby Wright

  This research is excerpted from an unpublished manuscript, Piety, Politics and Profit, by Dr. Bobby Wright. The author was assistant professor and research associate in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania until his death in 1991.

• The Youngest College: A new tribal college takes shape on the Spokane reservation

  Melissa Campobasso

  One of the newest tribal colleges in the country is the Salish Kootenai College branch campus in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian Reservation. An extension of Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation of western Montana, it offered its first classes during winter quarter of this year.

• Tribal College of the Future: Tomorrow’s tribal college will redefine the culture of its tribe, and help shape national policy

  Paul Boyer

  A comprehensive recounting of the struggles tribally controlled institutions have already overcome, the impacts they have made on their communities, and what the future looks like for the tribal college movement.

Editor's Essay

• Thinking About the Future

  Paul Boyer

  With this issue, I end my tenure as editor of Tribal College. Beginning with the fall issue—the next you will receive—the journal will be in the capable hands of Marjane Ambler,

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Research

• Tribal College Faculty: The demographics

  Kyle Patterson Cross

  The experience and composition of tribal college faculty is an important concern. The authors discuss how survey data on the characteristics of instructors may help shape instructional staff development and future faculty recruitment efforts. The authors will also propose development of mentoring programs for tribal members and other native American students attending tribal colleges to become faculty members at tribal colleges.