Crossing Borders

Features

• Caring, Sharing in the Big Sky: Writer, photographer explore five of Montana’s tribal colleges

  Jerry Worley

  The author travels across Montana with a former student and photographer and says that visiting tribal colleges is the best way to really understand them.

• Transformative Travel: Experiences in Mexico, NYC change students’ lives

  Barbara Ellen Sorensen

  Students plant the seeds of collaboration, blossom outside their comfort zones, and discover up close what makes communities, nations work.

• Donors’ Tours Answer Many Questions

  Barbara Ellen Sorensen

  Students are not the only ones traveling outside their comfort zones to learn about the world. The American Indian College Fund also provides opportunities for donors to visit the tribal colleges and universities.

• Red Movement: AIHEC empowers Native students

  LaVinia Pauline Snowball

  The annual Summer Leadership Conference attracted more students and tribal colleges than ever to prepare them to be active leaders back home.

• Turtle Mountain Teachers Train Change Agents

  Carmelita Lamb

  Pre-service teachers at Turtle Mountain Community College are charged with breaking the cycle of academic dysfunction through culturally responsive teaching practices.

Editor's Essay

• Travel Pries Open Our Minds, Builds Understanding

  Marjane Ambler

  When education is combined with travel, it broadens horizons, opens minds, and exposes people to different perspectives. It also creates new bonds of friendship and understanding.

Voices

• Ethnic Studies Law Seeks to Silence Us

  Myla Carpio

  With House Bill 2281, the Arizona legislature is “attempting to disrupt cultural and historical understandings of ourselves to protect particular notions of American history and society.

Profile

• Sharing Hawaiian Knowledge through Story

  Lisa Sterling

  University of Hawai’i senior administrator blends Indigenous philosophy of responsibility and collective leadership.