Native American boarding school funding under scrutiny in lawsuit The lawsuit filed by the Wichita and Washoe tribes demands an accounting of an estimated $23.3 billion in misappropriated funds.

LIPKIN: Intermountain began as a school for Navajo youth, but in the '70s, it opened to all Native children in the U.S. Fights sometimes broke out among students of different tribes.

Intermountain was the largest boarding school for Native Americans in the United States, and throughout its operation housed over 20,000 students from 99 tribes.

The Intermountain Indian School was open to Native American students between 1950 and 1984. Utah’s earlier Native American boarding schools, in the Uinta Basin and around the state, deliberately and ...

The Intermountain Indian School was open to Native American students between 1950 and 1984. Utah’s earlier Native American boarding schools, in the Uinta Basin and around the state, deliberately ...

Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.

Most other boarding schools primarily focused on strict policies to eradicate all forms of Native American cultural expression. At Intermountain and a small number of other schools, students leveraged ...

The Intermountain Indian School opened its doors in January 1950, bringing in 500 Navajo students, according to information from The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.

PROVO, Utah — Utah was home to at least 7 Indian boarding schools. Panguitch is where we know at least twelve students died and were buried far from home. Intermountain Indian School in Brigham ...

In Utah, the largest boarding school was the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City. And the longest operating one was the Whiterocks School for Ute children on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.

More than 18,000 children were sent to boarding schools hundreds or thousands of miles from home. Many entered a life of trauma or abuse.