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For this installment of Current Reflections, we are joined by longtime tribal college leader Tom Shortbull. From a long line of Lakota leaders, Shortbull served as president of Oglala Lakota College for over 30 years. He was a member of AIHEC’s board of directors when Congress passed the Tribally Controlled Community College Act of 1978 and he interfaced with the federal government through multiple administrations. Moreover, Shortbull was elected to the South Dakota Senate in 1982, the first American Indian to serve in that capacity. During his years as a senator, he worked to expand Native voting rights and was a principal advocate for the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Throughout South Dakota and Indian Country more broadly, he is known as a forceful champion for Indian people and a man who is unafraid to call out injustice wherever he sees it.