California has no accredited Native American colleges. That could change.

California has no accredited Native American colleges. That could change.

It has been a generation since California had an accredited tribal college serving the state’s Native American residents. An Inland Empire college is trying to change that. “We have more than 1.4 million American Indians living in California,” said Celeste Townsend, president of California Indian Nations College. “And yet not one (accredited) tribal college.” Compare that to Oklahoma — the state has one-third the Native population of California …