Never Forget Where You Came From

American Indian people have spiritual and emotional ties to the land, even when that land is a reservation blighted by poverty, strip mining, and a legacy of federal allotment policies that can make land management a legal nightmare. Tribal colleges are working to reconnect their students to the land through innovative curricula and programs that restore a deep contextuality to science classes. A number of such efforts are described, and links to additional information permit the user to examine them in more detail. They include work on water quality, sustainable lumbering, biodiversity studies, and connecting to Indigenous students in other locations Vol. XII, Issue 2, Winter 2000 Educational levels: General public

Celebrating Our Students: We're in the Business of Changing Lives

Interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators of several woodlands tribal colleges demonstrate the powerful ways that tribal colleges impact the lives of their students. Student bodies are diverse, ranging from single parents to recovering alcoholics. Many students who have never succeeded in academic environments before demonstrate astonishing gains in learning and communication skills within a short time. Their successes, in turn, empower and inspire the faculty, staff, and administrators of these institutions. Vol. XII, Issue 1, Fall 2000 Educational levels: General public, High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division, Graduate or professional