At least 95 Indigenous children died in federal boarding schools in New Mexico

At least 95 Indigenous children died in federal boarding schools that operated in New Mexico for more than a century. That includes 34 deaths at Santa Fe Indian School, 18 at Charles H. Burke Indian School at Fort Wingate near Gallup, 11 at Crownpoint Boarding School and 10 at Albuquerque Indian School. Children also died in schools in Blackrock, Cuba, Mescalero, Newcomb, Prewitt, Shiprock and Tohatchi.

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