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This late 19th-century image of a photograph at the Center for Southwest Research at UNM in Albuquerque shows Indigenous students identified as Navajo. (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press)
They sat inside a dust-covered box that had been stashed away, untouched, for years: black-and-white photographs of Apache students who were among the first sent to a New Mexico boarding school bankrolled by East Coast parishioners and literary fans.
The first showed the girls bundled in blankets with moccasins on their feet. The next, taken just weeks later, was starkly different, the children posing in plaid uniforms, high-laced boots and wide-brimmed straw hats.
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