US Tribal Colleges for Native American and Indigenous Students

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Aaniiih Nakoda College (Harlem, MT): Aaniinen and Nakoda Tribes
Bay Mills Community College (Brimley, MI): Bay Mills Indian Commuity: Anishinaabek Nation and The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of ChippewaNatives
Blackfeet Community College (Browning, MT): Blackfeet Nation
Cankdeska Cikana Community College (Fort Totten, ND): Spirit Lake Dakota Nation
Chief Dull Knife College (Lame Deer, MT): Northern Cheyenne Tribe
College of Menominee Nation: Menominee Nation
College of the Muscogee Nation: Muscogee Nation
Dine College (Tsaile, AZ): The Navajo Nation
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College (Cloquet, MN): Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Natives
Fort Peck Community College (Poplar, MT): Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes
Haskell Indian Nations University (Lawrence, KS): Operated by the US Bureau of Indian Affairs, 140 Tribal nations and Alaska Native communities represented
Ilisagvik College (Barrow, AK): Iñupiat
Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM): Cherokee Nation
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College: Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College (Hayward, WI): Menominee Nation
Leech Lake Tribal College (Cass Lake, MN): The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Little Big Horn College (Crow Agency, MT): The Crow Tribe
Little Priest Tribal College (Winnebago, NE): Winnebago Tribe
Navajo Technical College: The Navajo Nation
Nebraska Indian Community College (Macy, NE): Sioux Nation, Omaha Tribe
Northwest Indian College (Bellingham, WA): Lumni Nation
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College (New Town, ND): Three Affiliated Tribes: Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations
Oglala Lakota College (Kyle, SD): Lakota Nation, Oglala Sioux Tribe
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College: Anishinaabek Nation
Salish Kootenai College (Pablo, MT): Séliš, Ksanka, and QÍispé people of the Flathead Nation
Sinte Gleska University (Mission, SD): Lakota Nation, Sicangu Tribe
Sisseton–Wahpeton Community College (Sisseton, SD): Dakota Nation
Sitting Bull College (Fort Yates, ND): Lakota/Dakota Nation
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (Albuquerque, NM): Federally operated by the Bureau of Indian Education, 120 different Native Tribes represented
Stone Child College (Box Elder, MT): Chippewa Cree Tribe
Tohono O'odham Community College: Tohono O’odham Nation
Turtle Mountain Community College (Belcourt, ND): Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe
United Tribes Technical College (Bismarck, ND): Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold, Spirit Lake Tribe, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe
White Earth Tribal and Community College: Anishinaabe Nation
Wind River Tribal College: Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Tribes

Source: US Department of Education, Tribal Colleges

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