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‘A profound week’: Utah survivors share Indian boarding school stories for federal archive as Biden apologizes for ‘sin’

“What happened to them in these schools needs to be heard,” said an oral history manager.

(Uintah County Library Regional History Center) Ute boys in uniform at the Whiterocks School, the state's longest operating Indigenous boarding school, are shown in this undated photo. A national coalition is collecting stories from boarding school survivors, including 24 in Utah, for a public archive.