A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby is growing under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque, N.M., Thursday, July 1, 2021. Indigenous activists are concerned that a plaque that noted the site of the burial ground was removed in recent days. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Indigenous questions removal of boarding school plaque

The plaque noted the site of a burial ground for students who attended the school between 1882 and 1933

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