United Tribes Technical College was somewhere between two hundred and three hundred students.2 The school was founded in 1969 by the five tribes of North Dakota, but its brick campus buildings were built at the turn of the twentieth century, intended as a military base. During World War II, the base was used as an alien internment camp. Attending school at UT is the polar opposite of idyllic. But that’s how college life was (and still is) for so many Native American students—it’s just that nobody pays attention. No American minority is less represented in the national consciousness.3
