Volume 29, No. 3 – Spring 2018
On the Leech Lake reservation, solar energy is being harnessed to heat homes through northern Minnesota’s long winter—and LLTC is leveraging the new infrastructure to connect students and community members with careers.
Tribes can improve their economic outlook by hiring, developing, and retaining a Native workforce on the reservation to replace non-tribal workers. Tribal colleges can play a central role in this process.
Native language speakers were once chastised and marginalized, resulting in few economic opportunities. But today, tribal colleges recognize their linguistic and cultural knowledge as valuable job skills.
The long history of instability in federal Indian policy makes tribal colleges’ role in creating jobs and a prosperous economic future for Native nations all the more vital.
The former leader of Turtle Mountain Community College, discusses the important role TCUs can play in job creation.
The lack of resourcing for 1994 land grant colleges has institutionalized the inability of TCUs to catch up to mainstream universities. The time has come to change that.
Working with local stakeholders, Alaska’s only tribal college is forging new opportunities for its students.
Compiled for TCU faculty and administrators, this guide offers an overview of sources on career and workforce development.
In this original study, the American Indian College Fund investigated the dynamics of first generation workers and what tribal colleges can do to support and prepare them.
Researchers worked with Oglala Lakota College to develop interpretive curriculum for the National Park Service based on Native students’ stories and experiences.
By Mark Hollabaugh
University of Nebraska Press (2017)
276 pages
Review by Richard Williams
By Edward Benton Banai
University of Minnesota Press (2016)
111 pages, 5 parts
Review by Elaine Fleming
Edited by Angela Long
Stylus Publishing (2016)
304 pages
Review by Monte Randall
By Pauline R. Hillaire
University of Nebraska Press (2016)
426 pages
Review by Jennifer Denetdale
By Dewi Ioan Ball
University of Oklahoma Press (2016)
400 pages
Review by Christopher M. Harrington
By David J. Wishart
Bison Books (2016)
147 pages
Review by Bradley Shreve
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