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Volume 2   April 2011

List of Tribal Colleges

Montana: Tribal colleges and the White House officials are exploring ways to improve college graduation rates for Native American students.  Representatives from both groups recently met for discussions at Little Big Horn College.

"Tribal colleges are under-funded miracles," said David Yarlott, President of Little Big Horn College. "We work long hours without expectation for extra-compensation, because our heart is there for our students, because many of us were those students."

Yarlott said tribal colleges receive far less federal funds per student that most community colleges and universities

Kevin Jennings is the Assistant Deputy Secretary with the U.S. Department of Education. He said "what the tribes have done with, frankly, very little outside support is quite impressive.

"When you consider the very awful history this country has of educational institutions being used to exterminate languages and exterminate cultures of native people," he added, "I think having educational institutions that actually celebrate and affirm those cultures and languages is critical."

Part of the problem, Jennings says, is that federal money is not fairly distributed.

"It's not spread out evenly," he said, "There's some communities that get a lot less than others, and no community exemplifies that more than Native American communities and tribal colleges."

Jennings said America spends more money on education than any country in the world, but rank only 10th in graduation rates. He believes that to improve, we must focus on populations with the lowest  rates.

"Educational disparities tend to start very very early," Jennings said, "and if we don't intervene early people don't even make it in to the college pipeline."

Tribal Colleges [Note: Click icons for links to sources]
Alaska	Washington	Kansas
Ilisagvik College P.O. Box 749 Barrow, Alaska 99723 907-852-3333 Toll-free (Alaska only): 1-800-478-7337 fax: 907-852-2729 webspace.ilisagvik.cc/	Northwest Indian College 2522 Kwina Road Bellingham, WA 98226 360-676-2772 fax: 360-738-0136 www.nwic.edu	Haskell Indian Nations University 155 Indian Avenue P. O. Box 5030 Lawrence, KS 66046-4800 785-749-8479 fax: 785-749-8411 www.haskell.edu
Michigan	Minnesota	South Dakota
Bay Mills Community College 12214 West Lakeshore Drive Brimley, MI 49715 906-248-3354 fax: 906-248-3351 www.bmcc.edu Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College 111 Beartown Rd, PO Box 519 Baraga, Michigan 49908 906.353.4600 fax: 906.353.8107 www.kbocc.org Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College 2284 Enterprise Drive Mount Pleasant, MI 48858 989-775-4123 fax: 989-772-4528 www.sagchip.edu	Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College 2101 14th Street Cloquet, MN 55720-2964 218-879-0800 fax: 218-879-0814 www.fdltcc.edu Leech Lake Tribal College Rt. 3, Box 100 Cass Lake, MN 56633 218-335-4200 fax: 218-335-4215 lltc.edu White Earth Tribal and Community College 210 Main Street South P. O. Box 478 Mahnomen, MN 56557 218-935-0417 fax: 218-935-0423 www.wetcc.org	Oglala Lakota College 490 Piya Wiconi Road Kyle, SD 57752 605-455-6022 fax: 605-455-6023 www.olc.edu Sinte Gleska University P. O. Box 409 Rosebud, SD 57570 605-856-5880 fax: 605-856-5401 www.sintegleska.edu Sisseton Wahpeton College P. O. Box 689 Sisseton, SD 57262 605/698-3966 fax: 605/698-3132 www.swc.tc/
Nebraska		Wyoming
Nebraska Indian Community College College Hill P. O. Box 428 Macy, NE 68039 402-837-5078 fax: 402-837-4183 www.thenicc.edu Little Priest Tribal College P. O. Box 270 Winnebago, NE 68071 402-878-2380 fax: 402-878-2355 www.lptc.bia.edu/		Wind River Tribal College P.O. Box 8300 Ethete, WY 82520 307.335.8243 fax: 307.335.8148 www.wrtribalcollege.com
Wisconsin	Arizona Diné College P. O. Box 126 Tsaile, AZ 86556 928-724-6671 fax: 928-724-3327 www.dinecollege.edu Tohono O'odham Community College P.O. Box 3129 Sells, AZ 85634 520-383-8401 fax: 520-383-8403 www.tocc.cc.az.us	Oklahoma
College of Menominee Nation P. O. Box 1179 Keshena, WI 54135 715-799-5600 fax: 715-799-1308 www.menominee.edu Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College 13466 West Trepania Rd Hayward, WI 54843 715-634 4790 fax: 715-634-5049 www.lco.edu		College of the Muskogee Nation 600 N Mission Okmulgee, OK 74447 918-758-1480 fax: 918.293.5313 www.mvsktc.org Comanche Nation College 1608 SW 9th Street Lawton, OK 73501 580.591,0203 fax: 580.353.7075 www.cnc.cc.ok.us
New Mexico
Institute of American Indian Arts 83 Avan Nu Po Road Santa Fe, NM 87505 505-424-2300 fax: 505-424-0050 www.iaia.edu/	Navajo Technical College P. O. Box 849 Crownpoint, NM 87313 505-786-4100 fax: 505-786-5644 www.navajotech.edu	Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute P. O. Box 10146 9169 Coors Road, NW Albuquerque, NM 87184 505-346 2347 fax: 505-346-2343 www.sipi.edu
North Dakota
Cankdeska Cikana (Little Hoop) Community College P. O. Box 269 Fort Totten, ND 58335 701-766-4415 fax: 701-766-4077 www.littlehoop.edu/	United Tribes Technical College 3315 University Drive Bismarck, ND 58504 701-255-3285 fax: 701-530-0605 www.uttc.edu	Turtle Mountain Community College P. O. Box 340 Belcourt, ND 58316 701-477-7862 fax: 701-477-7807 www.turtle-mountain.cc.nd.us
	Fort Berthold Community College 220 Eighth Avenue North P. O. Box 490 New Town, ND 58763 701-627-4738 fax: 701-627-3609 www.fortbertholdcc.edu	Sitting Bull College 1341 92nd Street Fort Yates, ND 58538 701-854-3861 fax: 701-854-3403 www.sittingbull.edu
Montana"
Blackfeet Community College P. O. Box 819 Browning, MT 59417 406-338-7755 fax: 406-338-3272 www.bfcc.org	Chief Dull Knife College P. O. Box 98 Lame Deer, MT 59043 406-477-6215 fax: 406-477-6219 www.cdkc.edu/	Fort Belknap College P. O. Box 159 Harlem, MT 59526 406-353-2607 fax: 406-353-2898 www.fbcc.edu/
Fort Peck Community College P. O. Box 398 Poplar, MT 59255 406-768-6300 fax: 406-768-5552 www.fpcc.edu	Little Big Horn College P. O. Box 370 Crow Agency, MT 59022 406-638-3100 (main number) fax: 406-638-3169 www.lbhc.edu	Salish Kootenai College P. O. Box 117 Pablo, MT 59855 406-275-4800 fax: 406-275-4801 www.skc.edu
	Stone Child College RR1, Box 1082 Box Elder, MT 59521 406-395-4875 fax: 406-395-4836 http://www.stonechild.edu

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