Aaniiih Nakoda College: Where Native American Culture and Technology Meet

In the 33 years since it was chartered, what is now Aaniiih Nakoda College, the small tribal college on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation has come a long way.

"These folks, when they started here they had no buildings, no anything, they just survived," Aaniiih Nakoda College President Carole Falcon Chandler said about the college faculty. "We say we are survivors."

In just over three decades, the two-year college has undergone a name change, expanded its facilities on the small campus and is now ranked the number one community college in Montana and 27th in the U.S., according to a recent su...