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TCUs’ Unique Take on the Purpose of Education: A Reflection for National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week

TCUs’ Unique Take on the Purpose of Education: A Reflection for National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week

During National Tribal Colleges and Universities Week, our Senators and Representatives learn about the perspective of higher education, not as an impersonal experience that results in higher earnings, but as a sharing of knowledge and deepening of relationships that leads to graduates who are not only higher earners but invested members of their community and country.

TCU Map Update

Tribal Colleges and UniversitiesThe American Indian College Fund serves 34 accredited tribal colleges with 75 campuses located in 13 states in the Southwest, the Northwest, and across the Great Plains from Kansas and Oklahoma to Minnesota and the Dakotas—which serve a...

One Student’s Story

One Student’s Story

By Joseph (Tohono O’odham Nation) As a Native person traveling on my own tribal nation and ancestral lands, I never thought I would be questioned about my citizenship. Our land and our Tribe existed long before borders, checkpoints, or immigration agencies. Yet these...

National Day of Racial Healing

National Day of Racial Healing

In the past year we have witnessed the erosion of freedom of speech, racial profiling of civilians, and further limitations on minority and low-income individuals’ ability to pursue their desired educations and careers. The Indigenous peoples within the United States...

Lending an Indigenous Perspective to ICE Raids

In the past year we have witnessed the erosion of the freedom of speech, profiling of civilians, and the right to peacefully protest. What has happened in Minnesota, including the murder of a protestor and the arrest of four Native Americans, is chilling. Native...

Remembering Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne) 

Remembering Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne) 

The former Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell passed December 30, 2025, surrounded by family shortly after a visit with tribal elders. Eddie Box Jr. sang the sacred Southern Ute Sundance songs which carried Native people between worlds for generations, and the vision of Nighthorse-Campbell donned in his war bonnet and buckskins and riding his horse home into the next world. 

Because of You

Thank you, Faculty.Look around, and you’ll see the many ways faculty of tribal colleges and universities support their students. They’re the heart of our institutions and the anchors of Native communities. Every day, they show up and embody the truth that teaching is...