Onamia Public Schools (Independent School District #480) is a school district headquartered in

Onamia, Minnesota Onamia ( ) is a city in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 878 at the 2010 census. U.S. Highway 169 and Minnesota State Highway 27 are the main routes in the community. History Originally, the city of Onamia was or ...

. In Mille Lacs County it serves Onamia and Vineland, and in Morrison County it serves

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. It also serves sections of

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History

Prior to 1979 the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation did not have a tribal school, so Native American students generally attended Onamia Public Schools. Tom Callinan of the ''

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stated that in that period the Native American dropout rate was 66% and there was prejudice against Natives in the school system. Native students did a walkout in 1975 which resulted in an arrangement where Natives spent half of the day in Onamia and the other half doing cultural classes on the reservation, but they moved to establish their own school,

Nay Ah Shing School Nay Ah Shing School, also known as Mille Lacs Band K-12 Schools, is a K-12 tribal school system headquartered in unincorporated Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, with an Onamia postal address. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) ...

, circa 1979 after the time of the latter decreased. John Liapis became the Onamia superintendent in 1978. In 1983 the school system had five Native American students.
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Schools

Onamia High School Onamia is the name of a city and a township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, in the United States: * Onamia, Minnesota * Onamia Township, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota Onamia Township is a township in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States. ...

* Onamia Intermediate School * Onamia Primary School

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