The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Virtual Library is a collection of resources by for and about Native Americans available online -- selected and reviewed by Tribal College librarians.
Native American Manuscript Collections
Part of the Western History Collections at University of Oklahoma. More than two hundred manuscripts mostly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Collections include: Cherokee Nation; Cheyenne-Arapaho; Chickasaw Nation; Choctaw Nation; Creek Nation; Seminole Nation; Other; and General.
http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/WHC/nam/
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Tribal College Contributions To Local Economic Development [PDF]
Published in 2000, and prepared by AIHEC and the Institute for Higher Education Policy, "the report argues that the colleges affect local community development on many levels. Specific data from national sources, as well as examples from the Tribal Colleges and the reservations on which they are located, are used to illustrate these effects. In the first section, background is provided on the economic circumstances of Indian reservations and the potential for
postsecondary institutions to help. The focus is then narrowed to the impacts of Tribal Colleges in particular, including both direct economic effects—such as expenditures—and long-term effects such as the development of increased skill levels and employment in the local workforce."
http://www.aihec.org/resources/documents/TC_contributionsLocalEconDevmt.pdf
2008-05-06 13:54:58
AIHEC AIMS Fact Book 2005—Tribal Colleges and Universities Report [PDF]
"A report from American Indian Higher Education Consortium prepared by Systemic Research, Inc., this is the first in a series of reports using the new AIHEC American Indian Measures for Success in Higher Education (AIHEC AIMS) data collection system. Over the past four years, AIHEC developed culturally-relevant measures of American Indian success in higher education and used them at the nation’s TCUs. The new system is expected to form the foundation for systemic reform that significantly increases American Indian success in higher education. It provides a tool for TCUs and institutions of higher education generally to be accountable to their communities, their students, and families. The project produced a 215-page fact book covering all the TCUs as well as a customized book for each college. The books contain 10 sections with a total of 45 indicators. Because numbers alone cannot convey student success, the report includes vignettes of students and TCUs telling their stories."
http://www.aihec.org/resources/documents/AIHEC_AIMS_2005FactBook.pdf
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Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance
"The office of Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program's purpose is to serve eligible Navajo people and provide them the opportunity to achieve their educational goals. This opportunity is provided as a privilege with the intent that recipients, upon graduation, will return to the Navajo Nation to apply their learning to benefit the continuing development of the Navajo Nation."
http://www.onnsfa.org/
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Support for previous versions of the Virtual Library came from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Technical support was provided by the Internet Public Library.
AIHEC is the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
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