Transcript: Cynthia Lindquist, Ph.D.
Tribal colleges tout successful native people as role models
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- …Video they showed of “Changing the Face of Medicine,” which is essentially celebrating women in medicine, good women, American.
- [Lindquist:]
- Yes.
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- There are dozens and dozens of Native American women.
- [Lindquist:]
- Um-hum, and doing phenomenally well as role models.
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- So I wonder—can they not be shown to your kids at your college?
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- We do.
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- You do?
- [Lindquist:]
- We do. We try to set up posters, and we try to do the dual images with our regalia, you know, really personifying us as Native or indigenous people, but then also with the stethoscope, or the white jacket and that, and we can do this. We can accomplish this, and that’s one of the wonderful things about tribal colleges is that we try to utilize and tout the role models who are out there in education, but especially when we talk about math or sciences, we try to relate it back to culture.