History Colorado will spend the next year working with tribal partners to research the events, physical and emotional abuse, and deaths that happened at the onetime federal Native American boarding school that’s now Fort Lewis College.
“This bill is hugely important,” said Ernest House Jr., a Ute Mountain Ute Tribe member who sits on the Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees and whose father was sent to an Indian boarding school. “Folks might be surprised that this is part of Colorado’s past.”
“I’m really excited and grateful the state legislature and governor have recognized the need for us as a state to take the lead in making sure that we’re addressing what’s occurred on what’s now state land,” said Holly Norton, state archaeologist and deputy state historic preservation officer at History Colorado.
The bill requires the state agency to vacate the property, sell all or a portion of it or transfer all or a portion of the property to a state institution of higher education, a local government, a state agency or a federally recognized tribe in Colorado. Hundreds of Native American boarding schools existed across the nation as federal government institutions used to recruit Indigenous children in an effort to strip them of their culture and force assimilation.
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