Multiple essential services that were previously housed in separate buildings, including city hall, a library and a children’s museum, have a new home under one roof in downtown Columbus.

The certificate-granting academy’s name references the Omaha Tribe, known as “the ones who go against the current,” many of whose members live on the reservation where the school is located.

Among the first projects of its kind to be built on Native American reservation lands, the $18-million Against the Current Career Academy enables students at Umonhon Nation Public Schools to learn hands-on jobs while attending high school.