Las Vegas Sun

May 4, 2024

The sun rises Saturday Aug. 14, 2021, over a cemetery near the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, where a crowd that included survivors of the institution gathered to pay tribute to students buried at the site. The school, which operated from the late 1800s to 1980, was part of a U.S government program to isolate Native American children from their families in an attempt to forcefully assimilate them into white culture. Today, the institution’s administrative building has been converted to a museum and cultural center.

Ric Anderson

The sun rises Saturday Aug. 14, 2021, over a cemetery near the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, where a crowd that included survivors of the institution gathered to pay tribute to students buried at the site. The school, which operated from the late 1800s to 1980, was part of a U.S government program to isolate Native American children from their families in an attempt to forcefully assimilate them into white culture. Today, the institution’s administrative building has been converted to a museum and cultural center.