The Winding Road to Student Success

Volume 18, No. 1 – Fall 2006

Features

Empowering Students for Success: Colleges share best practices for keeping students on track

Juan Avila Hernandez

Tribal colleges have always helped students overcome obstacles. Now their techniques for retention are becoming even more sophisticated.

Editor's Essay

Greetings from New Editor

Tina Deschenie

Bookworm that I am, I greatly enjoyed being guest editor for this year’s TCJ Student Edition. The student writings reflect an incredible mix of ideas and experiences.

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‘Story Catcher’ Remembers Walking Amongst Giants

Marjane Ambler

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Student Conference in Green Bay, WI, last spring, was rich with stories and especially poignant for me since it could be my last.

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Profile

Haskell Graduate’s Skills Transported Her From Cane Field Shack to the White House

Carolyn Burgess Savage

Carolyn Burgess Savage returned to the Chitimacha reservation after 30 years and began a new career preserving and promulgating her language and culture.

On Campus

Media Reviews

The Red Road to Wellbriety in the Native American Way

White Bison, Inc. (2002), Colorado Springs, Colorado
ISBN 0-9719904-0-9 – 278
Paperback, $15.00

Review by Victoria Beatty

This book translates the Twelve Step program of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous into Pan-Indian cultural terms.

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Cheyenne Daughter

by Lori Lambert, Ph.D., and Deanne Toby
Author House (2005) 104 pages
ISBN 1-4208-7086-6
Paperback $30.60

Review by Dr.

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Montana 1911: A Professor and His Wife Among the Blackfeet

Edited by Mary Eggermont-Molenaar
University of Calgary Press (2004) (Hardcover), 367 pages
University of Nebraska Press (2005) (Softcover),

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So You Want to Write about American Indians? A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars

by Devon Abbott Mihesuah
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
(2005)
164 pages — ISBN 0-8032-8298-2
Paperback $16.95

Review by Philippina Halstead

Devon Mihesuah (Choctaw),

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Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voice of the Wisconsin Oneidas

Edited by Herbert S. Lewis
With the Assistance of L. Gordon McLester III
University of Nebraska Press (2005), 425 pages
ISBN 0-8032-8043-2,

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No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memories of an Omaha Indian Soldier

by Hollis D. Stabler
Victoria Smith, Editor
University of Nebraska Press (2005), 190 pages
ISBN 0-8032-4324-3, $24.95

Review by James Thull

This book is essentially an oral history.

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Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways

Wanda D. McCaslin, Editor
Living Justice Press (2005) – 459 pages
ISBN 0-9721886-1-4, Paperback, $25.00

Review by Michael Thompson

This unique collection is subtitled “Writings on Community Peacemaking and Restorative Justice from the Native Law Centre,” located at the University of Saskatchewan.

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