Governance

Features

• Brown Faces in Blue Uniforms

  Mark Rolo

  Concern and courage intersected to create a vision that has been realized in the Leech Lake Tribal College tribal law enforcement program.

• Accountability: What Tribal Colleges Can Teach – And Learn

  Schuyler Houser

  Schuyler Houser discusses the mounting evidence of the failure of current accountability models in American organizations and offers ways tribal colleges can learn from these shortcomings.

• Indian Voices Rising: Native Activists Aim at ’96 Elections

  Michael Hill

  Across Indian Country, community leaders, political activists, and tribal college administrators and staff are hard at work educating the public and getting out the vote for the November 1996 elections.

• Making Peace, the Navajo Way

  Sharon Witmer

  The peacemaker resolution process was locked away in memory for many years. Then, during a legal proceeding, an elder mentioned, “we used to do it this way … ” The tribal court justices, sensitive to the shortcomings of the imposed European system, decided to incorporate the old peacemaker way into the tribal court system. It was re-instituted in 1982.

• Governing Under-Funded Tribal Colleges

  Marjane Ambler

  When the 1995-96 academic year was half over, tribal colleges had received only 20 percent of their operating funds because of the budget impasse between Congressional Republicans and Democrats. As the funding dribbled in with each continuing resolution, the total appropration per full-time Indian student was just $2,900.

Editor's Essay

• Respect for Three Sovereigns

  Marjane Ambler

  No one shows respect for federal, state, and tribal sovereigns like American Indian veterans.

Resource Guide

• 8-1 Summer 1996 “Governance” Resource Guide

  Editor’s note: Sharon O’Brien has graciously provided the following suggestions for better understanding tribal governments, which she compiled especially for Tribal College Journal readers.

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