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| The Fort Lewis Indian School was opened in 1892 with 51 children enrolled.
Tribes represented included Navajo, Ute, Apache and Sioux. By 1901 the school had 345 students, but because reservation schools were being encouraged, the number of students at Fort Lewis dropped to 40 in 1909. (See the Colorado State Archives' online list of names from this and another Indian Industrial Schools in the 1900 Federal Census at http://www.archives.state.co.us/Indians/Indians.htm#lewis.) 1910 was the final year of the Fort Lewis Indian School. That year, Congress offered the property to Colorado with the conditions that it would be an institution of learning and that the Indian pupils would not be charged tuition. |
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