From the Arctic Circle to the Great Plains, tribal colleges and universities are launching a vast array of new programs to revitalize and preserve Native languages.

Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College’s language program offers students a complete immersion experience where they learn to speak Ojibwe in everyday situations.

In July of 2013, Natalie Diaz will be on the campus of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to teach in the Institute’s new Low Residency MFA program in Creative Writing. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, just out from the highly regarded Copper Canyon Press, is (more)

At tribal colleges and universities, emerging programs give Native students opportunities to study science at home— and to share knowledge among elders and communities too.

Watching rain turn to runoff, the author contemplates the soil and seeds washing past her.

At the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, students are monitoring the impacts of climate change across Indian Country.

AIHEC and TCJ have collected photos from tribal colleges
across the nation.

Until recently, fundraising at Cankdeska Cikana Community College (CCCC, Fort Totten, ND) was limited to an occasional special project. With budget cuts happening throughout the college, faculty and students have taken it upon ourselves to raise funds instead of requesting money from the college’s general fund.

Lionel Bordeaux, president of Sinte Gleska University, recalls his journey to the presidency and shares his hopes for the future.

Looking back on the challenges faced over the past four decades, longtime leaders within the tribal college movement share their memories as well as advice for future leaders.