Aiding in the postsecondary education of American Indians with the monetary aid of AIHEC is the quarterly magazine, Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Education.<\/em><\/p>\n Originally established in Mancos and now based in the M.M. Mayer Building on East Second Avenue in Durango with only two full-time staff members, Tribal College Journal<\/em> covers the happenings of the 37 tribal colleges in the U.S., which include the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota; College of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin; and Ilisa\u0121vik College in the United States\u2019 northernmost town of Utqiagvik, Alaska.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re a national publication, with subscribers all over North America and even the world. But despite our extended reach, we\u2019re a relatively small operation,\u201d said Bradley Shreve, editor of 10 years. \u201cThere\u2019s Marvene (Tom) and I, plus we have someone at the main office at AIHEC who does some marketing work for us and then there\u2019s our designer, Walt Pourier, who we\u2019ve been working with for about 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTribal College Journal is showing the world how tribal colleges are changing the face of Indian Country through the voice of educators, students, and the tribal community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Founder Paul Boyer foresaw Tribal College Journal<\/em>, established in 1989, as a way for \u201c(tribal) college staff, faculty, administrators, and students to discuss their needs, successes, and evolving missions,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n For many American Indians, attending college in distant locations can be overwhelming, which is one of the appeals of tribal colleges, all located on or near reservations.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Indian college students are more comfortable going to a school near their home, where they can still be with their family,\u201d said Tom, the magazine\u2019s subscriptions and advertising manager. \u201cBefore access to these tribal colleges, American Indians would get homesick and drop out of college early.\u201d<\/p>\n Shreve said: \u201cNative students who attend tribal colleges have a much higher success rate than those who attend mainstream institutions. \u2026 They are places that embrace students\u2019 cultural roots and know the challenges they face. A much higher percentage of tribal college students are older and have families.\u201d<\/p>\n Culture and heritage are as important to American tribal colleges as the degrees they offer, which include everything from computer technology to criminal justice to political science. The professors at the colleges contribute stories of their students\u2019 success and samples of their work in these fields to the magazine, which allows staff members and students at other tribal colleges to read about the goings-on with their contemporaries and potentially establish lifelong connections and friendships.<\/p>\n Regarded as the most important issue of the magazine, the fall edition features a section highlighting the writers and artists of the various tribal colleges. The pieces in the student section are categorized into Best Fiction, Best Non-Fiction, Best Poetry and Best of the Arts, many of which are entries in the student writing contest Tribal College Journal<\/em> runs every March.<\/p>\n \u201cThe students are so talented,\u201d Tom said. \u201cThe work they produce is wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n Along with student work, contributors to the magazine include a variety of essayists and correspondents from various backgrounds and expertise, and Tribal College Journal<\/em> is always on the lookout for more writers to share their work.<\/p>\n \u201cThe journal publishes both scholarly articles, as well as more journalistic pieces. \u2026 And we now have our own academic press called Tribal College Press, which publishes about one book per year,\u201d Shreve said.<\/p>\n Over the decades, Tribal College Journal<\/em>\u2019s subscribership has extended beyond the U.S. all the way to countries in Scandinavia and beyond, as the popularity of its reflective cultural, global and socio-political content continues to grow. It is a magazine that emphasizes the value of higher education and the necessity of demonstrating the multitude of paths American Indians can take toward their academic goals.<\/p>\n \u201cWorking at TCJ is busy with lots to do, but rewarding in that what we do, who we serve, is meaningful and critically important given the history of American Indian education,\u201d Shreve said. \u201cWe are actively working to strengthen the sovereignty and self-determination of Native nations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Publication, founded in 1989, covers 37 schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,561,3150],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-native-american","tag-newspaper-and-magazine"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84052,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38541\/revisions\/84052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38541"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tribal College Journal vision statement<\/h4>\n