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

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

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. History Colorado on Tuesday released a 139-page report by State Archaeologist Holly Norton that pieces together local and nationa…