Reports on the creation of a public health degree at Dine College in Shiprock, New Mexico, the first degree of its kind at a "tribal college". Review of the work of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and the Centers for Disease Control, who developed the degree with the goal of increasing the number of American Indians in health professions and improving the health status of American Indians. Comments from Edward Garrison, head of the Biology and Health Curriculum at Dine College.