Image: Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO has one of the largest Native American student populations of any university in the US thanks to a tuition waiver program. The school was once a US military fort, then an Indian Boarding School where most students had been forcibly removed from their indigenous communities. The school's historical interpretation of its own history promoted a false narrative of "happy Indians" well into this century. Plaques depicting this false narrative were recently removed from the school's clock tower, initiating a new phase of historical interpretation at Fort Lewis. Read the Indian Country Today story. Read More: Fort Lewis College
