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The focus of the three-part research study includes TCU student support services, program development and review, and sustainability.
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Earth Power: Sustainable Infrastructure at Turtle Mountain Community College
By investing in wind and geothermal power infrastructure, one tribal college is dramatically cutting energy costs and reducing its carbon footprint.
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Arctic Adaptability: Infrastructure at Iḷisaġvik College
Since its founding, Alaska’s only tribal college has made its home at a Cold War-era naval research facility. But by building partnerships and seeking new funding opportunities, Iḷisaġvik College is envisioning and planning a new campus.
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Planning for the Next Generation: Capital Infrastructure at Colleges and Universities
The American Indian College Fund has developed an array of capital infrastructure projects to help revitalize and renew tribal college campuses—and it’s doing so in a culturally relevant and environmentally sustainable way.
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Indigenous Sustainability at College of Menominee Nation: Lessons from the Past, Learning for the Future
The forest has sustained the Menominee people since time immemorial. Now, the College of Menominee Nation is working to conserve forest resources for future generations.
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Planning the American Indian Reservation: From Theory to Empowerment
By Nicholas Christos Zaferatos
Syracuse University Press (2015)
329 pages
Review by Ahmed Al-Asfour
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Oglala Lakota College Hopes to Expand Greenhouse with STEM Grant
Plans to build a greenhouse and expand sustainable initiatives from a hoop house on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation may be easier now with South Dakota School of Mines & Technology’s recent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education grants.
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Leech Lake Tribal College Builds Sustainable Homes
Leech Lake Tribal College builds homes in a curriculum project using advanced framing techniques and green building science.
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Tribal Colleges Should Focus On Sustainability
Dear Editor,
I’m not Native. I’d like to see the tribal colleges focus on sustainability—so critical now. The Native peoples have done more than any others to protect the Earth.
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CMN’s Solar Energy Research Gets Boost from New NSF Grant
The College of Menominee Nation’s (CMN) applied research projects on solar energy are expanding with a new $197,128 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Human Resource Development.
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For a Sustainable Future: Indigenous Transborder Higher Education
Recent immigration policies have led to a fortification of the U.S.-Mexico border. Tohono O’odham Community College is at the front lines, studying and negotiating how the international border affects Indigenous communities and ecosystems.
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Growing Our Own: A Sustainable Approach to Teacher Education at Turtle Mountain Community College
Through its teacher education program, TMCC is meeting the Anishinaabe of North Dakota’s educational needs, strengthening tribal sovereignty and self-determination, and positively affecting people’s lives.
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CMN student experience sustainable development
In an original internship program at College of Menominee Nation (CMN, Keshena, WI), students experience “The Science of Place” in innovative ways at the Sustainable Development Institute.
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TOCC helps develop sustainable energy
What are our energy needs? And how can a remote, rural community best use solar, wind, and other sustainable energy sources?
These two questions were the focus of a recent project in which Tohono O’odham Community College (TOCC,
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HINU, Purdue Students Study Sustainable Ag
Beginning at the end of May, students and a professor from Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU, Lawrence, KS) will participate in a 15-day study-abroad course on sustainability in Costa Rica.
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Ilisagvik Students Build Sustainable Arctic Home
By Elise Sereni Patkotak
Ilisagvik College (Barrow, AK) and its partners plan to build energy efficient, 1,000-square foot homes in a remote arctic region for $150,000.
