Southern Ute Boarding School (Ignacio, Colorado)

Five Native American boarding schools designed to strip indigenous children of their culture, heritage and language operated in Colorado for decades, part of a centuries-long federal effort to subjugate the tribes and people that lived on this land for thousands of years. The federal investigation identified five Native American boarding schools that once operated in Colorado: Southern Ute Boarding School in Ignacio, 1886-1981

Just outside the southwest Colorado town of Ignacio, on Southern Ute tribal land, Though the Southern Ute Boarding School closed in 1920, the campus still served various other purposes — including intermittent use as a school — before closing for good in 1981.