New report identifies student deaths linked to Colorado's Native American boarding schools: 'No child should ever die at school' – Greeley Tribune

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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