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Navajo Community College Opens its Doors

Back in the day on January 21st, 1969, the Navajo Community College opened its doors to students for classes. Founded the year before, the postsecondary educational institution was the first in the United States to be established and controlled by natives themselves. The idea for the two-year college was conceived as a direct result of the profound lack of culturally responsive education in public and Bureau of Indian Affairs-run boarding schools. With a mission statement affirming the promotion of its people’s language and culture, Navajo Community College began modestly with an enrollment of just 301 students. By the fall of 1973, after having received millions of dollars in funding from Congress, it had moved to a 1,200-acre campus east of its original location in Many Farms, Arizona.

Now known as Diné College, the school continues on more than forty years later as the oldest and largest native controlled educational institution of its kind.

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