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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.
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Creating Jobs through Apprenticeships at Ilisagvik College
Working with local stakeholders, Alaska’s only tribal college is forging new opportunities for its students.
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First-Generation Workers in Indian Country
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.
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Gerald “Carty” Monette on Job Creation
The former leader of Turtle Mountain Community College, discusses the important role TCUs can play in job creation.
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An Array of Opportunities: Building a Sustainable Future at Leech Lake Tribal College
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.
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The Nativization of the Tribal Workforce: A Vision for the Future
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.
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To Know the Language: Leveraging Cultural Knowledge for Job Creation
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.
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Getting There From Here: Tribal Colleges and Reservation Economic Development
If economic development can be nurtured by the sustained activity of diverse partnerships, then each tribal college needs to invest, not in a single approach, organization, or policy, but in identifying and strengthening a variety of institutions, both public and private, in its own community.
