Focuses on the Sisseton Wahpeton Community College, a "tribal college" of the Dakota Indians in Sisseton, South Dakota. Comments from college president William Harjo LoneFight regarding the philosophy of the institution and its integration of the Dakota language and tribal cultural values. Looks at various programs and institutions that have been initiated at the college, such as the Dakota Immersion Daycare Center, the Dakota Language Revitalization and Appreciation Day and the Dakota Letters Project. View that culturally-centered education and Western education are both essential to the advancement of Native Americans in the 21st century.