Little Big Horn College

Quick Facts

Address: 1 Forest Lane, Crow Agency, MT 59022
Website: https://www.lbhc.edu/
Founded: 1980
Students: 248 (2017)

About

Little Big Horn College offers educational programs designed to meet the economic and social needs of the Crow Indian Reservation. Little Big Horn College is a public two-year community college chartered by the Crow Tribe of Indians in January 1980. The College is located in Crow Agency, the capital of the Crow Indian Reservation and along the Little Big Horn River in south central Montana. Most students who attend Little Big Horn College are Crow tribal members. Facilities such as the 2003 Driftwood Lodges Learning Center and Cultural Learning Lodge refelct the Crow cultural geometrical design elements.

The college opened its doors in 1981 with a modest 32 students enrolled. Now, an average of 300 students enroll each semester. and received accreditation at the community college level in June of 1990.

The college name honors a traditional Crow story: "Many generations ago, a young boy was thrown off a precipitous cliff by his stepfather in the Basawaxaawuua (Big Horn Mountains). Despite a desperate search for the boy, his family gave him up for lost, and mourned his passing. Seven Big Horn Rams saved the child from the life threatening fall into the canyon depths. These seven Rams raised the youngster to adulthood, and taught him many lessons about the big horn sheep way of life. Among the Seven Rams, the smallest in stature imparted crucial lessons in raising the young and in making strong community his name was Iisaxpuatahchee, The Little Big Horn Ram. When the young boy grew to adulthood, he returned to the Crow People and shared the lessons he had learned from the Seven Rams. The young man was later name Uuwatisee, Big Metal. The Crow people often attribute their cultural strength to the wisdom of Iisaxpuatahchee."

LBHC offers associate degrees (Agriculture, Biology/Natural Resources, Business, Crow Studies, Directed Individualized Studies, Education, Health, Human Services, Information Systems: Information Technology, Liberal Arts, Mathematics) and certificate programs (Agriculture, Business: Accounting Assistant, Business: Tribal Management, Early Childhood Education, Highway Construction, Information Systems: Office Assistant, Information Systems: Technology Assistant, Welding Technology & Fabrication).

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