Thirty-seven years ago, the Navajo people in Arizona created the first tribally-controlled college in the world. This birth fired the imagination of educators and community activists across the United States, who soon began creating their own colleges in the Northern Plains, Midwest, Northwest, and, most recently, in Oklahoma and the East. It is…

When students from Haskell Indian Nations University set foot in Siberia, they anticipated a new experience. They did not expect something comfortably familiar. Haskell's Dan Wildcat (Euchee member of Creek Nation) explains it was "like being at home" when they first encountered the indigenous people in the Altai region of the former Soviet…