"[I]creasingly, Indians are founding, controlling, and populating tribal and community colleges on reservations - more than forty of them across thirteen states at last count....Transforming education into something we do for ourselves, rather than something that is done to us, goes a long way toward healing the long rift between Indians and the educational system." (Treuer, p. 418)
Treuer, D. (2019). The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present. New York, NY: Riverhead Books.