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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 784 as of the 2020 census, down from 878 in 2010. U.S. Highway 169 and Minnesota State Highway 27 are the main routes in the community. History Originally ...
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Mille Lacs County Mille Lacs County ( ) is a county in the East Central part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,459. Its county seat is Milaca. The county was founded in 1857, and its boundary was expanded in 1860. Mil ...
it serves Onamia and
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Crow Wing County Crow Wing County is a county in the East Central part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 66,123. Its county seat is Brainerd. The county was formed in 1857, and was organized in 1870. Crow Wing County i ...
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History

Prior to 1979 the
Mille Lacs Indian Reservation Mille Lacs Indian Reservation is the popular name for the land-base for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Central Minnesota, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Minneapolis-St. Paul. The contemporary Mille Lacs Band reservation has significan ...
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, 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 Intermediate School * Onamia Primary School


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Onamia Public Schools
School districts in Minnesota Education in Crow Wing County, Minnesota Education in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota Education in Morrison County, Minnesota {{minnesota-school-stub