It used other locations in the years that followed before acquiring the majority of historic Sheldon Jackson College buildings and campus in 2011.

[1][2] It took almost four years for a USDA Rural Development loan to be transferred from the college to the camp because of a "maze of paperwork," but it was done in 2013.

Adult programs such as a Native Jazz Workshop and the Sitka Arts and Science Institute are also offered and have included artists such as Jason Marsalis.

The camp was founded at the Sheldon Jackson College campus, moved to the University of Alaska Southeast/Mt.

Edgecumbe High School campus in the 1980s, switched back to Sheldon Jackson College in the 1990s, returned to the Mt.