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| | Nayquonabe, Thelma | 19(2) | Wnter 2007 | 23 | Native American history | | Wise, Tony | |
Anthony "Tony" Wise, a Hayward, WI, businessman and entrepreneur used his resources to create events and public attractions to celebrate his own Scandinavia heritage and his friend's Ojibwe culture.
In his Historyland and Telemark Resort, he made it pos
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| | | 13(2) | Wintr 2001 | 46-7 | Job Training | Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College | | Ojibwa |
KBOCC has received a grant to $33,000 to provide skills training to low-income families. The program will provide computer-training, business program,
student services program, and identify employment opportunities.
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| | | 18(2) | Winter, 2006 | 41,43 | Northern Great Plains, Inc. | United Tribes Technical College | Swagger, Russell (St. Croix Chippewa) | |
Russell Swagger, dean of student and campus services at UTTC, is one of 26 leaders invited to participate in the Northern Great Plains project , an intensive 18-month social change effort designed to find new ways to address long-standing, systemic prob
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| | Morris, Sheila M | 12(2) | Winter, 2000 | 16-17 | Domestic abuse | Nebraska Indian Community College | Morris, Sheila M | Omaha and Winnebago |
Sheila M. Morris started school in 1992 at the age of 37. She had seven children and an abusive husband but she endured and graduated with an AA in 1995. As a survivor she knows she has a reason to live and a right to live. Now she is a site coordinato
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| | Price, Michael Wassegijig | 12(2) | Winter, 2000 | 20-21 | Canoes | Leech Lake Tribal College | | Anishinaabe |
The ecological knowledge required to build a canoe is extensive and very intricate. Knowing the exact
characteristics of each tree and how these materials correlate to form a remarkable lightweight watercraft exemplifies Anishinaabe cultural knowledge.
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| | | 12(2) | Winter, 2000 | 27 | Cooperation | | Phillips, John | |
The US Department of Agriculture has appointed John Phillips as the USDA tribal college liaison - a new
position in the department. Previously John Phillips was with Si Tanka College and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland, Africa.
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| | Gipp, Gerald E. | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 3 | Traditional knowledge | | Gipp, Gerald E. (Hunkpapa Lakota) | Hunkpapa Lakota |
The director of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) explains that Native people hold differing worldviews and values than the dominant society.
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| | | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 5 | Tribal College Journal | | Horse, Michael (Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, European, Hispanic) | Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni |
The artist for the cover of this issue is Michael Horse. He is a jeweler, actor, stunt man, sculptor, painter, and activist. The cover art work is titled: Blue Dress. More information on the artist at his website:
michaelhorse.com
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| | | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 6 | Writers | | Johnson, Natasha Kaye (Navajo) | |
Five of the writers in this issue of the Tribal College Journal are introduced with a short biographical paragraph. They are Natasha Kaye Johnson, Matt Herman, D. J. Eagle Bear Vanas, Michael Thompson, and Thelma Nayquonabe.
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| | Litz, Ruby K. | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 7 | Tribal College Journal | Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College | Litz, Ruby K. | St. Croix Band of Wisconsin/ Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe |
A 2007 "Student of the Year" writes to thank the Tribal College Journal for the acknowledgement that she received in the Fall 2007 issue. Ruby K. Litz is now employed by the St .Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin in their Land and Planning Department.
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| | Hall, Donna | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 7 | American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) | Forth Berthold Community College | Hall, Donna (Arikara, Hidatsa, Gros Ventre) | Arikara, Hidatsa, Gros Ventre |
Donna Hall, a student at Fort Berthold Community College write to share that the AIHEC conference in Rapid City was a positively amazing and life-altering experience. She gives special recognition to her mentor Delvin Driver and his son D.J. Driver who
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| | Francisco, Damascus | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 7 | Tribal College Journal | Tohono O'odham Community College | Francisco, Damascus (Tohono O'odham) | Tohono O'odham |
A 2007 Student of the Year from Tohono O'odham Community College writes to express his appreciation of the Fall 2007 issue. He writes to encourage other students by saying: "If I could do it, anybody can." He is currently a full time student at the Uni
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| | Deschenie, Tina | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 8-9 | Storytelling | | Deschenie (Dine/Hopi) | Dine/Hopi |
The editor of the Tribal College Journal tells of her rich upbringing in the oral traditions with her father tell Coyote stories in the winter and her mother telling stories of her own childhood as well as stories like The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread
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| | Deschenie, Tina | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 8-9 | Storytelling | | Deschenie (Dine/Hopi) | Dine/Hopi |
The editor of the Tribal College Journal tells of her rich upbringing in the oral traditions with her father telling Coyote stories in the winter and her mother telling stories of her own childhood as well as stories like The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbr
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| | Thompson, Michael | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 12-16 | Oral tradition | Haskell Indian Nations University | Thompson, Michael (Mvskoke Creek) | Mvskoke Creek |
30 years ago, Michael Thompson started teaching composition and literature at Haskell. A lot has changed in 30 years and Thompson believes now that there is a uniquely Indigenous world view. He says oral tradition could be superior to written literature
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| | Nayquonabe, Thelma | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 20-24 | Native American history | Lac Courte Oreille Ojibwa Community College | Wise, Tony | Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe |
Historic films and audio tapes from the 1950s and 1960s have created some excitement amongst the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa people. The "Audio Visual Production Project" has been started to preserve the recordings. The process is seen as a "way od hono
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| | Johnson, Natasha Kaye | 19(2) | Winter 2007 | 26-27 | | Dine College | Walters, Harry (Dine) | Dine |
A young Navajo weaver want to learn more about the traditions. Harry Walter, director of the Dine College museum says: "Just learning to weave is the aesthetic part of it, but learning the songs and words that go with it, would be the whole. It would b
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 5 | | | Blackbird, Ken (Assiniboine) | Assiniboine |
Two photos by Ken Blackbird are merged to create the cover of the Tribal College Journal. Blackbird can be reached at PO Box 2511, Cody, WY 82414
The two photos are "Crow Fair Tipis" and "Crow Buffalo".
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 6 | Writers | | Boyer, Paul | |
The writers for this issue of the Tribal College Journal are listed with a biographical paragraph on each one.
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| | Gokee, Andrew | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 7 | Tribal College Journal | | | |
A letter to the editor questions the inclusion of certain advertisements in the Tribal College Journal such as NSA and the CIA. He also questions the "brain drain" that is reflected in the job announcements on the TCJ website. He wants the young people
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| | Deschenie, Tina | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 8-9 | | | Deschenie, Tina (Dine/Hopi) | Dine/Hopi |
The new editor of the Tribal College Journal shares her excitement with AIHEC's new initiative on indigenous evaluation. She feels that indigenous evaluation can be useful to entire colleges and to each of us as individuals. The process entails identify
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| | Boyer, Paul | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 12-15 | Educational evaluation | | Nichols, Richard (Santa Clara Pueblo) | |
Through support from the National Science Foundation to AIHEC, tribal colleges are now systematically developing strategies for culturally based assessment of programs and services managed by tribal colleges. The goal of the project is to look at evaluat
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| | Emerson, Larry | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 18-21 | Culture | Red Crow Community College | Weasel Fat, Roy | Kainai |
Historically, education has forced Native youth to enter a non-Native mainstream society through a one-way process that has generally excluded Native culture and language. In 2002, Red Crow Community College created a 3 year teacher training effort calle
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| | Hermes, Mary | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 20-21 | Language revival | Sinte Gleska University | White Hat, Sr., Albert (Sicangu Lakota) | Lakota |
The tribal college founders were all Lakota speakers and their boarding school experiences convinces them to create something grounded in Lakota philosophy. Sinte Gleska Community College opened in 1971 and became the first tribal-based university in the
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| | Brien, Luella | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 23 | Language revival | Little Big Horn College | Yarlott, David (Crow) | Crow |
Chartered in 1980, Little Big Horn College is dedicated to the preservation of the Crow language and culture. One Crow language class and two Crow culture classes are part of the general requirements for graduation. Nearly 3/4 of the students speak Crow
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| | Zepeda, Ofelia | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 24-25 | Culture | Tohono O'odham Community College | | Tohono O'odham |
An O'odham scholar from Mexico was brought to Tohono O'odham Community College in Sells, AZ through the Fulbright program. Rafael Garcia's visit has confirmed that the O'odham in Mexico and the U.S. are the same people with the same culture, same histor
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| | Zepeda, Ofelia | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 24-25 | Culture | Tohono O'odham Community College | | Tohono O'odham |
An O'odham scholar from Mexico was brought to Tohono O'odham Community College in Sells, AZ through the Fulbright program. Rafael Garcia's visit has confirmed that the O'odham in Mexico and the U.S. are the same people with the same culture, same histor
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| | Madsen, Bob | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 28-30 | Mathematics | Chief Dull Knife College | Madsen, Bob | Northern Cheyenne |
A revision of the curriculum at Chief Dull Knife College has been created to address the problems with students lacking college-level skills
(typically 60-70% of the incoming students failed or withdrew from the pre-college math classes). With the revise
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| | Madsen, Bob | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 28-30 | Mathematics | Chief Dull Knife College | Madsen, Bob | Northern Cheyenne |
A revision of the curriculum at Chief Dull Knife College has been created to address the problems with students lacking college-level skills
(typically 60-70% of the incoming students failed or withdrew from the pre-college math classes). With the revise
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| | Nichols, Richard | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 32-35 | Indigenous evaluation | | Nichols, Richard (Santa Clara Pueblo) | Santa Clara Pueblo |
The resource guide presents evaluation resources and an overview of indigenous evaluation as an emergent field. Each writer has their own company that specializes in evaluation; one in New Mexico and one in Seattle, Washington.
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| | Nichols, Richard | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 32-35 | Indigenous evaluation | | Nichols, Richard (Santa Clara Pueblo) | Santa Clara Pueblo |
The resource guide presents evaluation resources and an overview of indigenous evaluation as an emergent field. Each writer has their own company that specializes in evaluation; one in New Mexico and one in Seattle, Washington.
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 38 | Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools (DETS) | Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College | | Ojibwa |
KBOCC summer camp involved approximately 70 elementary students, as well as high school and college-level students, who used the diabetes curriculum developed by DETS (Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools), a project involving eight tribal colleges funde
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 38 | | Cankdeska Cikana Community College | Esser, Thalia | |
CCCC Talent Search program selected 8 high school students to attend the United National Indian Tribal Youth conference in Buffalo, NY, in July 2006.
Thalia Esser was named CCCC Faculty Member of the Year and was praised for her efforts in the college be
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 39 | Athletic ability | Haskell Indian Nations University | Peters, Sr., Emmitt | Athabascan |
Emmitt Peters, Sr. was honored in April 2006 as the first sled dog driver to be inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS. In 1975, Peters' first place Iditarod finish set a speed record.
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 39-40 | AT&T Foundation | College of Menominee Nation | Tourtillot, Starlynn (Menominee) | Menominee |
Two tribal college students were among 11 Native Americans in the first AT&T Native American Political Leadership Program at George Washington University funded by the AT&T Foundation. Starlynn Tourtillott of the College of Menominee Nation and Marjeann
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 40-41 | Students | Little Priest Tribal College | Collette, Betty Redleaf | Winnebago |
Betty Redleaf Collette, Academic Dean of LPTC, reports on the 15 June 2006 graduates and the career opportunities of students during the summer of 2006: 3 students interned at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Research Center, 2 students attended a Pre-Law I
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 41 | National Science Foundation | Crownpoint Institute of Technology | Ribble, Jared (Dine) | |
A National Science Foundation Tribal College and University Program (TCUP) grant funded the Salish Kootenai College's (SKC) IT baccalaureate degree as well as providing for tuition, books, and fees for Crownpoint Institute of Technology (CIT) staff. Jare
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 43-44 | Culture | College of Menominee Nation | | Menominee |
The Sustainable Development Institute at CMN hosted two indigenous groups during the summer 2006. In May leaders from the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of Brazilian Amazon (COAIB) gained insight into how the Menominee preserved the tribal
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 44-45 | Tribal college faculty | Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College | Jones, Dan (Nicickousemenecaning First Nation) | |
Dan Jones, Anishinaabe language instructor at FDLTCC received the 2006 Distinguished Person of Color of the Year Award from the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He has taught at Fond du Lac since 1997 and UW-SUperior since 2002.
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 45 | Faculty | Haskell Indian Nations University | Hanson, Reeze LaHonde | |
The Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History enrolled 16 in its 2006 Lannan Summer Institutes for teachers of tribal colleges. One institute was "Teaching American Indian Literature" and the second concerned "Federal Indian L
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 45-46 | Rocky Boy Tribal History Project | Stone Child College | River, Celeste | Chippewa- Cree |
With an appropriation from the Montana Legislature, the Rocky Boy Tribal History Project began work in the fall of 2005 to produce materials to help teach Chippewa-Cree history in the public schools of Montana. The project started with community gatherin
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 46, 48 | | Leech Lake Tribal College | Goodwin, Dewey (White Earth Band of Ojibwe) | White Earth Band of Ojibwe |
Leech Lake Tribal College is working toward a high quality program for training police officers to serve in Leech Lake area and on reservations throughout Minnesota. Dewey Goodwin, a faculty member at LLTC, receives praise for his sculpture and his styl
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 48 | International | Oglala Lakota College | Frank, Dawn (Oglala Sioux) | |
Students in a doctoral program at South Dakota State University visited Bolivia for ten days. They visited a private college, Unidad Academica Campesina-Carma Pompa, where indigenous people provide training for teachers, nurses, office
workers, agricultu
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 48-49 | Summer opportunities | Northwest Indian College | Ballew, Cheyenne | Lummi |
The article highlights the many summer education opportunities that were available at NWIC in 2006. Students could enroll in classes and earn credit or retrieve credits needed, get daily tutoring (more than 60 students will continue to get tutoring throu
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 49-50 | Tribal colleges | Oglala Lakota College | Shortbull, Thomas | Oglala Sioux |
Oglala Lakota College celebrates 35 years of service in 2006. It was chartered by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association. President Thomas Shortbull indicates that the college is making pr
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 50 | | | Pease, Janine (Crow) | Crow |
Dr. Janine Pease was appointed to the Board of Regents for Montana's University System.
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 50-51 | Research | Oglala Lakota College | | |
A 5-year $7.4 million grant will establish the Center for Health Research working with tribes in South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. Oglala Lakota College and Sinte Gleska University are partners with those who will benefit from the grant. The grant wi
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 51 | | White Earth Tribal and Community College | Jentz, Jeff | Anishinaabe |
Two faculty members at WETCC have developed and host a radio show to promote the college. They are Jeff Jentz and Scott Ebsen. Jentz suggested short indigenous and intercultural readings. Ebsen proposed the concept of open conversation.
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 51-52 | | Sinte Gleska University | Beauvais, Archie (Sicangu Lakota) | Sicangu Lakota |
SGU was the first tribal college to be accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association and the first tribal college to offer a Master of Education degree. Dr. Archie Beauvais has been with the program for 20 years.
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| | | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 52 | Indigenous people | Cankdeska Cikana Community College | Lindquist-Mala, Cynthia (Spirit Lake Dakotah) | Dakotah |
Photograph at WINHEC at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in August 2006, shows five women resplendent in regalia of their indigenous cultures. Picture are two from the Salmii of Norway, two Taiwanese, and one Spirit Lake Dakotah woman who is Cy
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| | Halstead, Philippina | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 54 | Book review | | Chapman, Serle L. | |
The book concerns the turbulent history of the Bozeman Trail, Red Cloud's War, and brings together diverse recollections of the Fetterman Battle (or the Hundred Soldiers Killed Fight).
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| | Jilot, Tracey | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 54 | Crazy Horse | | McMurtry, Larry | |
The author explains that his book is an accurate portrayal of the life of Crazy Horse.
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| | Thompson, Michael | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 54 | Book review | | Warrior, Robert | |
Osage writer Robert Warrior's contribution to Native scholarship is called "essential reading."
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| | Thompson, Michael | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 554-55 | Water | | Remington, Sage (Southern Ute) | Southern Ute |
This is a review of Julia Dengel's documentary about the Animas-LaPlata River Project in southwest Colorado. The documentary gives close-up views of Southern Ute activist Sage Remington and water lawyer Sam Maynes.
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| | Pappin, Kim | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 55 | Book review | | Seton, Ernest Thompson | |
The Gospel of the Redman was originally published in 1937. Seton gives readers his insight into the Native psyche and daily life from the early 1900s. Seton has collected teachings of Hiawatha, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Black Hawk, and Geronim
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| | Scheetz, Anita | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 55 | Book review | | Tiller, Veronica E. Velarde (Apache) | |
Entries for each reservation provide basic statistical information, land area, labor force, educational levels, unemployment rate, and population.
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| | Cajete, Gregory | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 56-57 | Indigenous education | | Cajete, Gregory (Tewa from Santa Clara Pueblo) | Tewa |
Cajete says it is time for Indian people to define Indian education in our own voice and in our own terms. Among American Indians, education has always included a visionary expression of life. Tribal colleges should play a role in evolving the new expres
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| | Cajete, Gregory | 18(2) | Winter 2006 | 56-57 | Indigenous education | | Cajete, Gregory (Tewa from Santa Clara Pueblo) | Tewa |
Cajete says it is time for Indian people to define Indian education in our own voice and in our own terms. Among American Indians, education has always included a visionary expression of life. Tribal colleges should play a role in evolving the new expres
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| | Pond, Leslie | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 6 | Tribal college students | | | |
A "Letter to the Editor" praises the student writings in the Vol. 17, N. 1 issue. The writer sees herself "coming home" in what she believes in - between the covers of "your wonderful journal."
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| | Ambler, Marjane | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 8-9 | Renewable energy sources | College of Menominee Nation | | |
The editor introduces this issue on "sustainability". Several tribal colleges described in the issue have reduced their water use and have utilized wind, photovoltaic, and geothermal heat pumps to augment their energy. Tribes extend their sovereignty whe
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| | Stevenson, Gelvin | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 10-15 | Renewable energy sources | Turtle Mountain Community College | Tallent, Heather | |
TMCC's new campus will have a utility scale wind turbine powering the campus and excess electricity to sell to the local utility company. TMCC also will utilize geothermal energy from 560 wells. Heather Tallent, with University Leaders for a Sustainable
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| | Benton, Sherrole | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 18-21 | Renewable energy sources | College of Menominee Nation | Fowler, Verna (Menominee) | Menominee |
Dr. Verna Fowler, president of CMN, and Dr. Nancy Adamson, vice president of Galen U. signed an agreement to have collaborative research at the Sustainable Development Institute at CMN. Adamson says the Menominee have given hope to the indigenous people
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| | Ambler, Marjane | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 8-9 | Renewable energy sources | College of Menominee Nation | | |
The editor introduces this issue on "sustainability". Several tribal colleges described in the issue have reduced their water use and have utilized wind, photovoltaic, and geothermal heat pumps to augment their energy. Tribes extend their sovereignty whe
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| | Benton, Sherrole | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 21 | Sustainable forestry | College of Menominee Nation | Caldwell, Chris (Menominee) | Menominee |
Chris Caldwell, a graduate of CMN and the University of Wisconsin - Madison, has a vision for the sustainability of the Menominee forest. He sees parallels between his work and the USDA Forest Products Lab. A goal is to sustain the trees by using every l
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 21 | Sustainable development | College of Menominee Nation | | |
In fall 2006, CMN will have its second biennial conference: "Sharing Indigenous Wisdom: an International Dialogue on Sustainable Development". More information available at:
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| | Mills, Andrew | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 23-26 | Sustainable development | | | |
This resource guide provides information for those who want to improve campus sustainability. It lists organizations and resource databases, articles, publications, and books. Andrew Mills says the challenge is to make changes in the institutional cultu
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| | Mills, Andrew | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 23-26 | Sustainable development | | | |
This resource guide provides information for those who want to improve campus sustainability. It lists organizations and resource databases, articles, publications, and books. Andrew Mills says the challenge is to make changes in the institutional cultu
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| | Phillips, John L | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 28-29 | Leadership | Chief Dull Knife College | Hafer, James (Northern Cheyenne) | Northern Cheyenne |
How can tribal educators find opportunities to develop as successful leaders? In June 2005, the first class of the Leadership Development for the 21st Century; Linking Research, Academics and Extension (LEAD) began a 12 month program. Two of the 77 in th
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| | Phillips, John L | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 28-29 | Educational leadership | Chief Dull Knife College | Hafer, James (Northern Cheyenne) | Northern Cheyenne |
How can tribal educators find opportunities to develop as successful leaders? In June 2005, the first class of the Leadership Development for the 21st Century; Linking Research, Academics and Extension (LEAD) began a 12 month program. Two of the 77 in th
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| | Ness, Jean E. | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 30-31 | Sustainable development | Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College | Olson, Dylan | |
FDLTCC is developing a four-year degree program entitled "Gidakiimanaan: An Interdisciplinary Degree in Sustainability." This article profiles a graduate of the two year program who became a manager of a gas station and convenience store who would be in
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| | Ness, Jean E. | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 30-31 | Sustainable development | Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College | Olson, Dylan | |
FDLTCC is developing a four-year degree program entitled "Gidakiimanaan: An Interdisciplinary Degree in Sustainability." This article profiles a graduate of the two year program who became a manager of a gas station and convenience store who would be in
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| | Selden, Ron | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 32 | Educational leadership | | | |
Nine tribal college staff persons have joined the third session of the AIHEC leadership development program. Nine educators were nominated by their individual schools to participate. The colleges involved are LBHC, SWC, FBC, IAIA, CMN, BMCC, BCC, CCCC,
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 32 | Educational leadership | | | |
The participants in the 2005-2006 Kellogg leadership program are pictured: Lola Doore, Sean Chandler, Larry Blacksmith, Samantha Cameron, Karita Coffey, Francine McDonald, Burt Medicine Bull, and Melissa Cook.
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 32-33 | Teachers--Training of | Dine College | | |
The Office of Indian Education announced 16 grants to train qualified individuals to become teachers and administrators in Indian communities. Six of those 16 grants involved tribal colleges: DC, FBC, SKC, SBC, and UTTC.
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 33, 35 | Biotechnology | Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College | | |
Two faculty members at LCO designed a Tribal Learning Community Model to manage the learning and discussion centering on complex biotechnology topics, involving biological, social, or ethical issues. One issue is the mapping of the wild rice genome and t
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 35-36 | Renewable energy sources | Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute | | |
For four years SIPI has been developing a curriculum in renewable energy under a cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy. The effort includes outreach designed to excite students about science and engineering. SIPI students and faculty dem
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 35 | Robotics | Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute | | |
A dual powered mobile robot is pictured. It is used to demonstrate the excitement of science to college and high school students.
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 36 | American Indian Housing Initiative (AIHI) | Chief Dull Knife College | | |
In 2002 students and faculty from two universities joined with tribal community members to construct a strawbale literacy center on the Chief Dull Knife College campus. In September 2003 HUD approved a grant ($400,000) to build an Early Childhood Learnin
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 36-37 | Sustainable development | Leech Lake Tribal College | | Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe |
The mission of the Leech Lake Center for Career Development and Outreach and Extension Programs is to assist reservation community members in accessing resources to develop new strategies for life and work, which will link ancient cultural and spiritual
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 37, 40 | Research | Red Crow Community College | | Niitsitapi |
A team of RCCC faculty and students are working on an ethnographic research project: they want to challenge the belief that there are fundamental differences in the cognitive abilities of Western and indigenous peoples. The Niitsitapi communities assert
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 40 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | | Lindquist, Cynthia (Dakota) | Candeska Cikana Community College |
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has appointed Cynthia Lindquist (president of CCCC) as one of seven new members of the Council of Public Representatives (an advisory group for NIH).
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 40-41 | Agriculture | Fort Peck Community College | | |
The high price of tomatoes in northeast Montana inspired FPCC to start its own greenhouse. The FPCC greenhouse has produced an abundance of tomatoes as well as flowers and hundreds of cottonwood trees. Flowers placed along the highway through Poplar, Mo
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 41, 44 | Renewable energy resources | Crownpoint Institute of Technology | | |
In October 2003, CIT's Alternative Energy Program received a $299,000 grant from NASA to study and enhance renewal energy applications. In a seven day workshop in 2004 on photovoltaic design and installation, the participants installed an 1,800 watt phot
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 44-45 | First Americans Land-grant College Organization & Network (FALCON) | | Phillips, John | |
John Phillips, USDA/AIHEC liaison, served as the acting executive director for a new organization of more than 20 tribal college representatives who formed the First Americans Land-grant College Organization & Network (FALCON). There are no membership d
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| | | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 45 | National Institute of General Medicine | Turtle Mountain Community College | | |
A grant from the National Institute of General Medicine will provide for five advanced graduate students in biology, chemistry, and physics to teach at five tribal colleges in North Dakota. The new effort aims to help tribal colleges turn out more quali
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| | Neumann, Dennis J | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 45 | Simulation games in education | United Tribes Technical College | Baker, Sheri BearKing | |
Sheri BearKing Baker created "Lakota Jeopardy" for her class in Lakota History at UTTC. The Jeopardy test was taken near the end of the semester and received high praise from the students: "totally awesome learning tool," "brought the whole class toget
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| | Owen, Stephanie | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 50 | Bolivia | | Healy, Kevin | |
The book examines successful grassroots programs implemented in Bolivia. The author, Kevin Healy, was the Bolivia Foundation Representative for the Inter-American Foundation.
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| | Spencer, Gwynne | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 50 | Leadership | | Small, Gail (Cheyenne) | |
This is a feature length documentary film produced by Katahdin Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to tell compelling stories ignored by the mainstream media.
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| | Ristau, Holly | 17(2) | Winter 2005 | 50 | Agriculture | | LaDuke, Winona | |
Honor the Earth and White Earth Land Recovery have published a booklet concerning the communities that are working to restore traditional agriculture as an answer to the problems of diabetes and malnutrition.
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