Welcome to our developing Web site for our project in Native American literature. I am co-developing the web site with Rain Silverhawk who has been a presence on the internet for several years and whom I bumped into once online on the net. My co-work on this site has been more as an apprentice and so our site is fortunate to have her for a time to guide me through Joomia and Mambo. When it is fully operational, the public will have access to annotated bibliographies and teaching strategies. In addition we are exploring something I have wanted to do called "Map My Read", which will be a web site for readers.

We are exploring the ways that culturally relevant, imaginative literature can advance critical writing and reading in English across the disciplines and to ultimately improve the ways we teach the humanities. Our goal of helping to build a challenging intellectual environment through Native American literature will address several needs, one of which concerns the faculty. As a tribal college with multi-satellite branches situated across the Navajo reservation (one main campus at Tsaile, AZ, and seven satellite campuses), the members of our faculty maintain heavy teaching loads and have few opportunities to interact intellectually.

The problem of improving intellectual life has been studied by other colleges (http://cndls.georgetown.edu/provostseminar/) who have generously made their documents available on the Web. Intellectual life is a central concern of academic institutions because... (Please click on "More" below.)