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D-Q University

Based on the same law that prompted activists to occupy Alcatraz Island (a law that required surplus federal land to be returned to Native Americans), land in Yolo County was dedicated to the creation of D-Q University in 1971. The first and only American Indian university in the state of California, D-Q (officially Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University but always referred to as D-Q University) served a mainly American Indian population as a two-year college. Like other tribal colleges founded across the United States during this time of great social and political change, its purpose was to provide alternative ideas and methods of education to Native American people, and to support Native American cultures and lifeways. Unfortunately the school‘s future is unclear; in 2005 it lost its accreditation, and since that time enrollment has declined severely.

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