Research IDs additional Native American boarding schools in Colorado

Students and faculty pose outside the Teller Indian School in Grand Junction in this undated photograph. (Museums of Western Colorado)

By Elizabeth Hernandez | ehernandez@denverpost.com | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: September 1, 2023 at 1:24 PM MDT | UPDATED: September 1, 2023 at 6:00 PM MDT

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Seven of the Native American schools were managed by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, while the state of Colorado and the Catholic Church each managed a school as well.

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New research IDs additional Native American boarding schools in Colorado used to assimilate Indigenous children

A full report will be released in October after impacted tribal nations have time with the information

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