Indigenous-led nonprofit asks to help federal investigation into abuses at Native American boarding schools
Utah Diné Bikéyah’s entire 11-member board of directors attended boarding schools around the Four Corners as children. Now, they want to help the Interior Department review the federal policies that required hundreds of thousands of Native American children to attend similar schools.
(Wikimedia Commons) Many Native American students from the Navajo Nation and elsewhere attended the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah, between 1950 to 1984.
Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.