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New report identifies student deaths linked to Colorado’s Native American boarding schools: “No child should ever die at school”

History Colorado issues public report detailing lives of Indigenous youth at state’s former boarding schools

Students and staff at Fort Lewis Indian School in Durango circa 1900.
Students and staff at Fort Lewis Indian School near Durango circa 1900. (Courtesy of the Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College)
Elizabeth Hernandez in Denver on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
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A new examination of the abuses children suffered at Native American boarding schools in Colorado identified at least 65 students who died more than a century ago at the state's two most prominent schools, the grim legacy of a federal assimilation program that inflicted intergenerational trauma on Indigenous families.
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