As artist Jenna Ward wandered Main Street in Salt Lake City last week, she saw a
man lounging and enjoying his drink at a table outside Eva’s Bakery. That’s a
perfect way to spend a fall morning, she thought, p…
Thirteen elementary schools have been proposed for evaluation, as the Salt Lake
City School District begins the process for changes to school boundaries and
closures.
The Peabody Museum at Harvard University apologized this week for its
“complicity in the objectification of Native peoples,” and said it will return
hair clippings taken from hundreds of Indigenous people.
Utes believed children “would sicken and die” at Randlett boarding school, an agent wrote in 1897. “Their superstition has been increased during the past year ... by three deaths in the school.”
Here’s how children of the Ute Indian Tribe were required to work day after day, providing unpaid labor for decades to the federal boarding schools they were often coerced to attend.
To "eliminate and remedy" US Magnesium's "noncompliance with Utah’s environmental protection laws,” state officials urged a judge to appoint a receiver to run the company.