Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College

Quick Facts

Address: 220 8th Ave. E. New Town, ND 59763
Website: https://nhsc.edu/
Founded: 1973
Students: 228 (2017)

About

Located on the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation in New Town, North Dakota, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College serves the Mandan Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. NHSC emerged as a means of providing local education for tribal members. Under this charge, NHSC was founded May 2, 1973. Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College began offering courses in collaboration with the University of Mary, Minot State College, and the University of North Dakota, Williston Center. The college was accredited by the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges on February 12, 1988. It is one of thirty-two tribal colleges with status as a Land Grant Insitution, as of 1994. On February 25, 2011, the college expanded its offerings to include a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degree, transforming NHSC into a four-year college.

"Values of NHS College are modeled in a similar structure to the earth lodge, the common home of the Nueta, Hidatsa, and Sahnish people. Unity, our key value, is in the center – similar to the central position of the fire pit in earth lodges. Just as a fire radiates energy, so too does Unity usher in the surrounding principles of Spirituality, People, Culture, and Future. These four domains stand in the position where posts of the earth lodge support its roof."

NHSC offers bachelor’s degrees (elementary education, environmental sciences, and Native American studies), associate degrees (business administration, building construction, early childhood education, elementary education, information system specialist, liberal arts, Native American Studies, mathematics, pre-engineering, science, and human services), and certificate programs (administrative assistant training, carpentry, and welding).