Volume 18 Fall 2006 Issue No. 1

In This Issue:
The Winding Road to Student Success

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Features

12 Empowering Students for Success - Colleges share best practices for keeping students on track
by Juan A. Avila Hernandez Tribal colleges have always helped students overcome obstacles. Now their techniques for retention are becoming even more sophisticated.

23 TCJ Student Edition - Introduction
Chris Eyre finds it a blessing to introduce 13 student writers and to share in their eclectic, indigenously-diverse, and unique humanity. Eyre says that native writers maintain cultural continuity by educating others and providing a collective puulse through their self-expression.

Departments

8 Editor's Essay: "Story Catcher" Remembers Walking Amongst Giants
by Marjane Ambler and Tina Deschenie (Navajo/Hopi)

20 Profile: Carolyn Burgess Savage
by Barbara Johnson Williams

46 On Campus

64 Media Reviews
by Michael Thompson, Victoria Beatty, James Thull, Sherrole Benton, Michael Simpson, Dr. Richard Littlebear, and Philippina Halstead

63 Advertising Index

On the cover:
Lack of transportation is often an obstacle to student retention. Pictured hitchhiking is Ross Cunningham, Pomo Native from Northern California. Photographer Richard Bluecloud Castaneda is a fine arts graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM) who lives in San Francisco and attends the San Francisco Academy of Art University. As a freelance photographer, he works mostly with Native artists, poets, and actors. He also teaches basic photography to Native youth ages 8-18 and promotes tribal colleges in the process. To contact him, write to Richard Bluecloud Castaneda, 11 Nebraska Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, call (415) 412-1844, or email pimabrave@msn.com. Check out his website at www.rcbluecloud.com.