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As a federally chartered institution, the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI, Albuquerque, NM) has its roots in the early history of the tribal college movement,
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Assessing Community Resources & Critical Mass: Do you have what it takes to start a college?
James Shanley, Ed.D., outlines some of the complex calculations tribal communities must consider before trying to start a college.
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Keeping the Tribal Colleges Tribal: Advice from the veterans for the new generation of college builders
A number of tribal college staff, faculty, and senior administrators offer their advice to anyone starting a tribal college.
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It Starts With a Dream: Road map to initiate a tribal college
This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book by Wayne J. Stein, Ed.D. Stein has more than 23 years of experience as an administrator and teacher at Fort Berthold Community College, Sitting Bull College, and Montana State University where he is currently an associate professor of higher education and director of the Center for Native American Studies.
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Sinte Gleska College Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary: Beginning with just one broken typewriter, the college now plans to be a university
A recap of the weeklong celebration marking Sinte Gleska College’s Twentieth Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration.
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This Is the Way It Must Be: The responsibility and initiative for reviewing, evaluating and re-designing Indian education
Lionel Bordeaux says that Indians must determine their own future.
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Dream and Reality: The Founding and Future of Sinte Gleska College
In 1970, Stanley Red Bird took steps to realize his vision for a tribal college that would meet the higher education needs of Sicangu Lakota people.
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Founding of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium
A detailed walk through the founding of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium — successes, struggles, and the organization’s role in securing the future of tribally controlled community colleges.
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Higher Education and Native American Society
Native American society is working to piece together its once fractured cultures by learning to respect the past and embrace the future. Tribal colleges are helping to make the movement a success.
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The Idea of an Indian College or University in Twentieth Century America Before the Formation of the Navajo Community College in 1968
In this research article from TCJ’s first issue, historian Steven Crum traced the origins of tribal colleges back to the 1910s.
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Commitment to Community: An introduction to this journal
Tribal colleges promote opportunity by focusing on the needs of their own reservations. Together, however, they represent a movement that is bringing profound change to the landscape of all Native American society.
