The new Stone Child

ROCKY BOY'S INDIAN RESERVATION - For Steve Galbavy, Stone Child College is a work in progress. Galbavy, who has been president of the college for seven years, can look out his new office window at an impressive prospect.

Like most tribal colleges, he said, Stone Child's origins were humble.

"You held classes where you could - in vacant buildings, garages, wherever. That's where we started," Galbavy said. The contrast to the college's new home, complete with vaulting entryway fringed by two curving staircases and supported with natural wood columns, is marked.

For a while Stone Child held class...