Building Prosperity

Features

• The Native American Dream: Entrepreneurs pursue their passion and self sufficiency

  Sarah Deweese

  Business, accounting, and entrepreneurship studies are supported by Johnson Scholarship Foundation through scholarships to tribal college students.

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  Commitment to Building Prosperous Nations: Tribal colleges take aim against poverty

  Mark Fogarty

  A focus on United Tribes Technical College, Salish Kootenai College, Sitting Bull College, and Leech Lake Tribal College, and how tribal colleges help tribal communities and the nation prosper with economic growth.

• NWIC provides model for reporting on prosperity

  Mark Fogarty

  Job One in NWIC’s strategic plan is to build tribal prosperity; the college spells out exactly how it intends to develop its community.

Editor's Essay

• Accelerating Native Prosperity Takes All of Us

  Tina Deschenie

  This issue features the efforts of five tribal colleges to impact their local communities both directly and indirectly; the impact of the Johnson Scholarship Foundation; and Paul Boyer writes about economic development and gaming.

Voices

• Tribal Sovereignty Beats Roulette For Building Tribal Wealth and Nations

  Paul Boyer

  Wade Teeple, former tribal chairman of the Bay Mills Band in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, remembers what life was like in the 1950s. “There was nothing here,” he says.

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Profile

• Manyhides Identifies Communication as Student Congress’s Ongoing Challenge

  Mary Hudetz

  The AIHEC Student Congress and Salish Kootenai College have landmark anniversaries on the academic calendar this year, and this year’s congress president, Julian Manyhides (Blackfeet), will be present for both occasions. Manyhides places addressing unity among tribal colleges students at the top of his agenda.

Talking Circle

• Greek Statues and Vizenor Coexist In Humanities Course for Natives

  Lynne Crow

  Spokan Tribal College adjunct faculty member reworks Introduction to Humanities course giving it much-needed expansion beyond Western European bias.

Resource Guide

• 18-3 “Building Prosperity” Resource Guide

  Trond Jacobsen

  Accessing Capital, Building Prosperity
  INTRODUCTION

  Within the last several decades Native peoples have enjoyed increasing success in building and managing wealth and creating economic opportunities as the foundation of their independence and self-determination.

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