[2] The divisions include (all of which are in unincorporated areas):[3] The name "Nay Ah Shing" means "on the point".
After a March 1975 walkout there was a deal to have Native students spend about half of each school day in Onamia with cultural classes on the reservation taking the remainder, but the time of the latter had decreased.
After the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) gave the tribe a $138,000 yearly budget for educational purposes in September 1979, the school opened.
[2] Pat Phelpher of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune wrote that the tribe's chief executive, Arthur Gahbow, "was instrumental in starting the Nay Ah Shing School".
[6] In 1983, of the 47 students, five were deemed to be at risk for dropping out, a rate lower than that for Native Americans at the time.