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Cassandra Atencio walks through the boarding school exhibit in the Southern Ute Museum and Cultural Center in Ignacio, Colo. Photo by Corey Robinson / Special to The Colorado Trust
In August 1883, 27 Ute children and young people arrived at the Albuquerque Indian Boarding School, hundreds of miles from their families in Colorado.
Their journey there was a result of U.S. policy, with the explicit goal of eradicating Native cultures and assimilating Indigenous children into the U.S. economy. It was important enough at the highest levels of government that in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Henry Teller—who served as U.S. senator from Colorado before and after this appointment—had been overseeing the placement of some of the Ute children before they arrived in Albuquerque, according to a recent state report.
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