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The 38th annual powwow at United Tribes Technical College in September featured Kahurangi, which means Cloak from Heaven. The Maori Dance Theatre from New Zealand demonstrated Maori and Polynesian culture and life ways in their performances.
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MAORI DANCE GROUP
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TCUs Trade Crop Ideas Around Globe
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has arranged for several tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) to get involved in international agricultural research projects over the years,
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Embracing the World: Indigenous educators join hands to share gifts
In its first 3 years, WINHEC achieved an objective of global proportions – accreditation standards based upon indigenous culture and language.
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While Globalizing Their Movement, Tribal Colleges Import Ideas
Thirty-seven years ago, the Navajo people in Arizona created the first tribally-controlled college in the world. This birth fired the imagination of educators and community activists across the United States,
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IKMS Offers Home for Indigenous Knowledge
Little Priest Tribal College (LPTC, Winnebago, NE) is involved in developing one of the more complex partnerships with an international focus. The effort includes the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI),
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To Be, or Not to Be? TCUs probe identity questions as they “indigenize” their institutions
After 37 years, is it time to go back to the drawing board and reexamine what and how tribal colleges teach?
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Whale Rider: A Film
Written and directed by Niki Caro
Produced By Tim Sanders, John Barnett, Frank Hübner
South Pacific Pictures,
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Decolonizing Research: Indigenous scholars can take over the research process
Research that revitalizes our cultural traditions and ways of living is sacred work, essential to our survival.
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New Voices, Ancient Words: Language immersion produces fluent speakers, stronger personal and cultural identities
Language immersion not only saves languages and cultures. It also may reverse dismal student test scores and restore fractured families and communities.
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IAIA Students Host Maori Delegation
A delegation of Maori from New Zealand came to the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM, last September to share their culture with students.
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Fond du Lac Formalizes Maori Exchange Plans
Faculty and students from the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (FDLTCC), the White Earth Tribal and Community College, and high school students from Fond du Lac Ojibwe School and area high schools will experience New Zealand’s Maori culture through a student exchange program,
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Native Educators Form Worldwide Consortium
Native educators signed a landmark agreement August 5 in Stoney Park, Alberta, creating the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC). The educators who founded the organization came from New Zealand,
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Moving Toward the Circle of Prosperity: The cyber-journey
Tribal colleges are using technology to help break the cycle of hopelessness and joblessness. Their journey is guided by the elders’ wisdom and lit by the children’s eyes.
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Defying the Odds: Tribal Colleges Conquer Skepticism but Still Face Persistent Challenges
Tribal college veteran writer Paul Boyer speaks candidly to some tribal college founders about what their colleges have accomplished and some troubling challenges that remain.
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Bringing Thunder: Tribal colleges presidents explore indigenous New Zealand
A cadre of tribal college presidents, faculty, and staff visited Aotearoa, New Zealand, the home of the Maori, touring their educational facilities, including K-13 language immersion schools and Maori-controlled colleges. Janine Pease-Pretty on Top recounts the experience and describes coming away with a new understanding of what it means to be “indigenous.”
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Maori Visit Tribal Colleges to Trade Ideas
Following up on a historic meeting in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1999, several Maori education leaders from New Zealand traveled to the United States last fall.
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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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Don’t Forget Who You Are: For David Risling, Jr, spirituality is a way of life
David Risling, Jr. has devoted his life to Indian education and Indian rights. At last count, he helped establish seven Indian-run organizations in California and across the country, including D-Q University and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. In this interview, Risling reflects on the status of Indian spirituality and its importance in his own life.
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Higher Education In the Fourth World
Indigenous peoples around the world are finding empowerment through higher education. Ray Barnhardt examines what they have in common.
