Inside Look: "Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education"

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In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Bradley Shreve’s decision to leave academia after he became a parent; his job as the editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education; what the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) does; and his work as a podcaster interviewing tribal elders.

Our guest is: Dr. Bradley Shreve, the editor of Tribal College: Journal of American Indian Higher Education, the quarterly publication of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). Previously, he taught history and chaired the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Diné College, America’s first tribal college, which is located in the Navajo Nation. Bradley is the author of numerous articles, essays, and the book Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism (University of Oklahoma Press, 2011).

Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women and gender.

Listeners to this episode might be interested in:

• TCJ 
• Tribal College Press
• TCJ student magazine
• Meditation on Ceremonies of Beginnings: The Tribal College and World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Poems, by Thomas Davis
• The Pathfinders: Women Leaders in the Tribal College Movement 
• Remembering Diné College: Origin Stories of America’s First Tribal College
• Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism by Bradley Shreve
• A Conversation with Verna Fowler [Audio Podcast].
• Native American Studies channel on NBN

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