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--by Elaine Shilstut, Nick Skaggs, and Allison Davis

In 1906, an 8-year-old Akimel O'odham (Pima) student named Annie Moore enrolled at the Tucson Indian Training School. “We were not allowed to speak the Pima tongue at school,” Moore would recall almost 70 years later...

The history of denominational mission schools is lengthy and has legs in each U.S. state and in countries across the world — so perhaps it comes as no surprise that before there were Presbyterian churches in Utah, there were Presbyterian...