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. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

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.

Logan • When Canadian artist Sheila Nadimi first happened upon the abandoned buildings of the former Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, she felt a gravitational, even emotional, tug ...

National Congress of American Indians records / Series 6: NCAI Committees and Special Issues Files / 6.18: Self-Determination and Eduation / Education - Institutions and Organizations Identification ...

A new map gives more insight into over 650 Native American boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada \u2014 including a handful in Utah. ... Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City from 1950 to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

More than 18,000 children were sent to boarding schools hundreds or thousands of miles from home. ... culture and commerce in Arizona and the Intermountain West.

“Little Ones,” a comedic opera telling the story of Indigenous youth at Intermountain Indian School, is in its beginning stages of development but gave a glimpse of what’s to come with the ...