Names and legacies of Genoa Indian School students still remain in barn on campus
Names and other messages from the children can still be seen written on and carved into the wooden beams of an old dairy barn on the site of the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School, which operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Photographed in Genoa, Neb., on Monday, July, 10, 2023.
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This week's search for lost graves hasn't found remains — yet. But Genoa holds reminders of thousands of Native American children who lived at a former federal boarding school here.
