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{{Short description|Tribal land-grant college in North Dakota, U.S.}}
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|president         = Cynthia Lindquist Mala
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|city              = [[Fort Totten, North Dakota|Fort Totten]]
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|campus            = [[Spirit Lake Tribe|Spirit Lake Reservation]]
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'''Cankdeska Cikana Community College''' is a [[Public college|public]] [[Tribal colleges and universities|tribal]] [[Land-grant university|land-grant]] [[community college]] in [[Fort Totten, North Dakota]], on the [[Spirit Lake Tribe|Spirit Lake Reservation]]. The college is [[Higher education accreditation in the United States|accredited]] by the [[Higher Learning Commission]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hlcommission.org/component/directory/?Itemid=&Action=ShowBasic&instid=1980|title=Higher Learning Commission|website=hlcommission.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-07-05}}</ref> The college is named after Paul "Little Hoop" Yankton, a Dakota man who fought and died in [[World War II]]; his Dakota name was ''Cankdeska Cikana.''
==History==
CCCC's origins can be traced back to a [[Lake Region State College]] program offering a class in Fort Totten in 1965. The program slowly expanded under tribal governance, and the tribe established Cankdeska Cikana Community College in the 1970s. CCCC was established to provide higher education opportunities for the people of the Spirit Lake Reservation, including classes to preserve Dakota culture and language.
CCCC was chartered by the [[Spirit Lake Tribe|Spirit Lake Dakota Nation]] in 1974. Its first graduating class consisted of 5 students in 1977. CCCC's graduating class of 2009 was 42 students. In 1994, the college was designated a [[Land-grant university|land-grant college]] alongside 31 other tribal colleges.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nifa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/resource/1994%20LGU%20Anniversary%20Pub%20WEB_0.pdf |title=NIFA 1994s The First 20 Years of the 1994 Land-Grant Institutions Standing on Tradition, Embracing the Future |publisher=[[National Institute of Food and Agriculture]] |date=September 25, 2015 |accessdate=December 20, 2020}}</ref>
As of 2011, it is one of seven tribal colleges in the U.S. to offer a degree related to tribal administration.<ref name="Ronquillo">{{cite journal |last1=Ronquillo |first1=John C. |date=March–April 2011 |title=American Indian Tribal Governance and Management: Public Administration Promise or Pretense? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41061189 |journal=Public Administration Review |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=285–292 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02340.x |jstor=41061189 |access-date=November 5, 2021}}</ref>
==Athletics==
The school plays basketball in the [[Northern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]].
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==External links==
*[http://www.littlehoop.edu/ Official website]
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[[Category:Education in Benson County, North Dakota]]
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