undergoing a remodelling project for the past few years that includes new dormitories, classrooms, and an athletic sports complex.

The school colors are black, turquoise, yellow, and white which represent the four seasons in Navajo Culture and the mascot is the eagle.

[3] In 1891, Mary L. Eldridge and Miss Mary Raymond were sent by the Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to build a mission to administer to the spiritual needs of the Navajos in Jewett, known today as Hogback, New Mexico.

Mrs. Mary Eldridge Tripp initially opened her cabin in 1896 as a day school for Navajo children.

Native American children that attended the school were so far away from home that they had trouble adjusting to the life they now lived by.

With a flood watch on 5 October 1911, children were still put to bed because the staff thought that the water would never reach their campus.

On 6 October 1911 the Mission staff received a phone call at midnight that Durango, Colorado had three feet of water.

The flood was half mile wide below the junction of the San Juan and Animas Rivers, and the main channel was forty feet deep.

During 1979, the Mission and the Academy combined their academic programs and came under the direction of one Board of Trustees.