Two tribal college students were among 11 Native Americans in the inaugural AT&T Native American Political Leadership Program at George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC, which was funded by the AT&T Foundation. Starlynn Tourtillott (Menominee) from the College of Menominee Nation (Keshena, WI) and Marjeanna Burge (Comanche) from Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU, Lawrence, (more)

Carolyn Burgess Savage returned to the Chitimacha reservation after 30 years and began a new career preserving and promulgating her language and culture.

Tribal colleges have always helped students overcome obstacles. Now their techniques for retention are becoming even more sophisticated.

The Native Grass Project at Haskell Indian Nations University completed a second year of research and involved seven student interns and two faculty project directors. The research focused on switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), which is a warm season, perennial grass that is found throughout the United States. Student interns involved in the project, along with a (more)

The forest fires of Alaska were burning blazes the size of Hawaii and Rhode Island all over its interior. It wasn’t anything new, but still they called for every single available resource from the lower 48. I was on the Lolo Interagency Hotshot Crew at the time, and on the crew with me was one (more)

Daddy learned his language from his Auntie. Kiowa was her first and only language. Every summer growing up Daddy, his siblings, and his cousins all went to Auntie’s house to learn Kiowa. Back home his bilingual tongue was unacceptable. Daddy’s siblings and cousins were all at the same school. The teacher heard their second language (more)

I see kegs being smashed open By the horns of a colossal red bull with a Medicine wheel branded into his side And the liquefied dreams of a Million indigenous people overflowing The streets and spilling into the curbside gutters Flowing out into a crystal blue river Containing dead imaginations and The rotting corpses of (more)

This is true justice. This is the right building. I smell their incense and candles to Allah. It smells sour to me as we enter, not making a sound. The women and children scream at the sight of us; our uniforms mean death to their soldiers. I don’t know who among them is insurgent, but (more)

Faculty and students from Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI, Albuquerque, NM), Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU, Lawrence, KS), and the College of Menominee Nation (CMN, Keshena,WI) traveled together on a 12-day field ecology trip last August. Dr. Katherine Mitchell (SIPI), Dr. Doug Eifler (Haskell), and Dr. Bill Van Lopik (CMN) arranged the trip with funding (more)

YOU’RE A DYKE! I write each letter so she won’t know it’s me I look over ignorant heads at the focus of my hate the dyke who kissed me It’s all her fault I was drunk and she took advantage My friends didn’t believe me I’m no dyke I return to my note DYKES DON’T (more)