Racism

Features

• Undoing Racism at Leech Lake

  Jamie Robertson

  “Undoing Racism,” is a training program sponsored by the Leech Lake Tribal College that teaches participants about the structural causes of racism at work and at home.

• Little Big Horn Student Fights for Peace

  Marjane Ambler

  Little Big Horn student Alee Stewart has moved beyond feelings of helplessness to work for peace in her community.

• Racism is Learned

  Judi Davis

  Cloaking racism in layers of excuses may make it socially acceptable, but it does not alter the reality of racism and what it does to an individual or to a group of people.

• Will Students Succeed? First Nations School Evaluates Attitudes

  Joyce Goodstriker

  In 1985, the Blood Tribe conducted a survey in its tribal schools to determine the prevailing attitudes of three groups: the parents, teachers, and students. The results indicated discrepancies in their expectations of student success.

• Cultural Brokers: Explaining “Them” and “Us” in Indian Country

  Gregory Gagnon

  Cultural brokers explain and often justify one culture to another. They are interpreters in the broadest sense. In American Indian history this role was often assumed by the traders, by Indian women who married Euro-Americans, and by the mixed bloods who often assumed positions in each culture.

• Welfare Reform and the Tribal Colleges: Who’s Left Holding the Bag?

  James Shanley

  Tribal colleges are not mentioned in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, but the colleges will be crucial players as the reform scenario unfolds on the reservations with tribal colleges.

• Inventing New Approaches to Tribal Education

  Lydia Whirlwind Soldier

  Instead of modeling failed educational programs put forth by mainstream American education institutions, tribal colleges are developing programs based on the values, beliefs, and culture of their own tribes.

• Tribal Colleges Helped Shape Kellogg Agenda for Major Initiative

  Marjane Ambler

  A new, sometimes contentious, process at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has tribal college and mainstream university leaders, staff, and tribal elders working together to develop the mission and goals of a multimillion dollar initiative.

• Tribal College Instructors Learn About Renewable Energy

  Jim Williams

  Tribal college instructors and leaders took part in a renewable energy workshop last summer at the University of California at Berkeley. The workshop was organized by the Native American Renewable Energy Education Project (NAREEP) of U.C. Berkeley as the culmination of a year‑long collaboration with tribal colleges to develop an energy curriculum specifically geared toward tribal college students.

• Tribal Colleges: Where neighbors first meet

  John Lysne Nash

  This story is about Indian and non-Indian students, many of whom grew up on opposite sides of a reservation line but knew little about one another until they were classmates at the College of the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin.

• Indian Education in the Pacific Northwest: The Missing Research

  Michael Marker

  A case study reveals that the problem with educational research in tribal communities is not so much what researchers do; it is what they don’t do.

Editor's Essay

• Without Racism, Indian Students Could be Both Indian and Students

  Marjane Ambler

  One day in 1975 a teenage bully yanked Rebecca Taylor’s braid and said, “Get to the back of the line, you wagon-burning @#*#* squaw!” Within the week,

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Profile

• Urban Transplant Thrives at Sisseton-Wahpeton College

  Harvey DuMarce

  Rick Renville’s return home to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation in 1994 revived the 26-year-old student’s educational career.

Resource Guide

• 8-4 Spring 1997 “Racism” Resource Guide

  Julie Cajune

  Julie Cajune is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes with a Master’s Degree in Education. Presently a curriculum coordinator for the Salish Kootenai Education Department,

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Land Grant

• Tribal College Land-Grant Future: Promise and Peril

  Robert Bigart

  In the twenty-first century, the land-grant tribal colleges could revolutionize economic and educational opportunity on Indian reservations as much as the nineteenth and twentieth century mainstream land-grant colleges revolutionized rural America. The future is pregnant with possibilities and hazards for the tribal colleges.