Specific feature subjects are decided upon one month before the deadlines. About the Journal Features related to the issue's theme. Since the tribal colleges prepare their students to lead reservations into a viable future, their mission is necessarily broad. The journal's mission is similarly broad. The journal includes feature stories addressing themes ranging in the past from cultural property rights and agriculture to welfare reform and wildlife management.
Most articles relate directly to the work of tribal colleges.
With the exception of the scholastic research department, articles should focus as much as possible around a person or the people involved with the project or program being discussed. The future themes are discussed below. Research articles do not have to fit within the theme. We prefer research that addresses tribal college communities, especially research by tribal college staff or faculty or others from reservation communities. We will consider research that deliberately uses nontraditional research methods.