American Indian Student Body
The school has over 650 American Indian students, and annually hosts one of the largest powwows in the Pacific Northwest. In December 2010, the school opened a tribal longhouse, making it the second community college in the United States to open one, after Peninsula College, which opened its longhouse in 2007.
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