Volume 14 Spring 2003 Issue No. 3
In This Issue
Your Heroes Are Not Our Heroes
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Features
10 Beyond "Discovery," Lewis & Clark from an Indigenous Perspective
by Dr. Richard Littlebear (Northern Cheyenne)
15 Bicentennial Offers Opportunities for Tourism and Good Will
by Dorreen Yellow Bird (Sahnish)
18 Of Horses and Men: Superintendent Asbury's Deadly Assault on the Crow
by Carrie Moran McCleary (Chippewa Cree)
22 History Comes Alive at Tribal Colleges
by Marjane Ambler
24 Setting the Record Straight
by Rebecca L. Robbins, Ph.D. (Standing Rock Sioux)
34 Faces Behind the Tribal College Movement
For information about some of the many American Indian historic and cultural sites that can be visited, see the following websites:
www.tribalcollegejournal.org
Links to all the tribal colleges (click on "member colleges"). Many of the colleges have links to the tribes that chartered their institutions, and the tribes provide cultural and historical information.
www.mhanation.com/tourism
Provides information about the Lewis and Clark bicentennial signature event on the Fort Berthold Reservation in August 2006, Sakakawea's home, and the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation Cultural Interpretive Center.
www.lewisandclark200.org
Click on "signature events" to see the three events hosted by tribal nations: Oceti Sakowin - Remembering and Education, Historical Homeland of the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota Nations, August 27-28, 2004; The Nez Perce Tribe and the State of Idaho, June 14-17, 2006; and Reunion at the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, Home of Sakakawea, August 17-20, 2006.
www.nps.gov/lecl/
This National Park Service site features a printable travel guide on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, curriculum material for teachers, and information for kids on becoming a Junior Web Ranger.
www.nathpo.org
The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers provides articles from around the country about tribal tourism and historic preservation efforts, including some of the tribes' response to the bicentennial and dispelling the myths about Sakakawea.
Departments
6 Letters to the Editor
8 Editor's Essay: Your Heroes Are Not Our Heroes
by Marjane Ambler
27 Tribal College Profile:
Jerry Slater, a Personal Tribute
by Mary L. Tevebaugh
30 Resource Guide: The American Indian Perspective in America's History
by Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, Ph.D. (Comanche); Sheilah E. Nicholas (Hopi); and Claudia E. Nelson
36 On Campus
46 Media Reviews
by Anne M. Dunn, Greg Chester, and Barbi G. Lehn
50 Voice of the Students: All My Relations
by Richard Blue Cloud Castaneda
About the cover: United Tribes Technical College students created artifacts similar to those collected by Lewis and Clark, and now this shield is hanging at Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello. See the article "History Comes Alive at Tribal Colleges" by Marjane Ambler. Upper photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library Western Historical Collection. Cover design by Walt Pourier, Nakota Designs Inc.