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Dawn Brave Eagle is one of a small but growing number of American Indian school teachers who are working on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Learning Lodge Institute: Montana colleges empower cultures to save languages
Educators from seven Montana tribal colleges and community activists are collaborating to rebuild language fluency within their reservations.
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Historic Meeting Between Higher Education Leaders
“We acknowledge that your faces are all familiar. I have seen your eyes in the campfire years ago,” said Maori leader John (Hone) Tahu. Tahu spoke to his American Indian brothers and sisters at a historic meeting between indigenous higher education leaders from New Zealand (Aotearoa) and the United States.
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Teacher Education Workshop Shares Knowledge
For the first time ever, teacher education program directors from tribal colleges and universities gathered in July 1999 in Santa Fe, N.M., to trade ideas.
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SGU Pilots Theater and Writing Projects
Sinte Gleska University is participating in two collaborative projects intended to increase students’ creative potential, and both are pilots for other tribal colleges. Project HOOP provides theater classes.
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Wellness Center Fights ‘Commod Bods’
With the help of a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Fort Peck Community College has created a Community Health and Wellness Center. The elders named the center “Daya Tibi,” which means House of Good Living.
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Traditional Assiniboine Family Values: Let us bring back something beautiful
Kenneth Ryan, Native American Studies curriculum developer at Fort Peck Community College, discusses traditional Assiniboine views of the family with James Shanley. This is an edited transcript of that interview.
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Kellogg Grant Supports Bison Network
Oglala Lakota College offers a unique course that is best taught in the prairie, Tatanka Management—Bison Management. Instructor Trudy Ecoffey said some of its textbooks are not written but oral-traditional stories told by tribal elders.
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Menominee Create Language Mentorships
The Administration for Native Americans has awarded the College of Menominee Nation (CMN) a two-year grant for Native language preservation. The project, titled “Omaeqnomenew-Kiketwan Kaekenohamowekow Mesek Natamowekow” (Menominee Language Teacher and Helper),
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NINLHE Offers Professional Development
Many education professionals working with Native American students are interested in finding new ways to enable Native American students to earn college degrees while keeping their cultural identities intact.
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NMSU Offers Bridges for Students, Faculty
Summer research opportunities for students and faculty of New Mexico’s tribal colleges will again be available through New Mexico State University’s “Bridges Program.” Funded by the W.
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North Dakota Colleges Build Web Courses
The North Dakota Association of Tribal Colleges with funding from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation is developing courses and programs using its Interactive Video Network (IVN) and the Internet.
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Cultural Learning Centers Break Ground
The first in a series of Cultural Learning Centers broke ground this fall at Sinte Gleska University in South Dakota. By the end of next summer,
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Five Colleges Collaborate to Improve Assessment
In 1997, the five tribal colleges in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan embarked on an ambitious collaborative effort. Anticipating a visit in 1999 from the regional accreditation association, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College received a two-year, $100,000 grant to work toward more culturally aware accreditation assessment.
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CIT Programs Gain National Recognition
Crownpoint Institute of Technology’s reputation as one of the Navajo Nation’s primary catalysts for change continues to grow, according to CIT President James Tutt. The school enters its 20th anniversary year with nationally recognized agriculture programs,
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College Fund Meets Kellogg Challenge
Partly as the result of a Kellogg Scholarship Challenge Grant, the American Indian College Fund nearly doubled the amount of support provided to tribal colleges in 1997.
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College Improves Nutrition, Cooking
Cankdeska Cikana Community College on the Fort Totten Reservation in North Dakota has developed a culturally relevant nutrition and cooking class. Inspired by the necessity to better use commodity foods,
