Tribal Colleges - MT

Located on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana, Chief Dull Knife College was established to provide educational and cultural leadership to its constituents when it was chartered in 1975. The two-year college is an open-admission, tribally-controlled community college and land grant institution designed to provide affordable, quality educational opportunities to residents of the Northern Cheyenne reservation and surrounding communities. The original curriculum was aimed at training students for jobs in the developing mining enterprises in communities near the reservation. However, tribal leaders soon recognized the need for academic training, and the first academic courses were offered at Dull Knife in 1978. The curriculum today includes courses in Plains Indian Sign Language. In the fall of 2002, the college had an enrollment of 268.