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This photograph, dated to about 1881, shows 12 Puyallup boys, some of the first students to arrive at the Forest Grove Indian Industrial School in 1880.

Chemawa Indian School opened 145 years ago in Forest Grove

The Forest Grove Indian Industrial School opened on February 25, 1880. It was the first school of its kind on the West Coast and the second federally funded, off-reservation Native American boarding school in the country.

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Fight for America!

January 6th ... the board game?

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Fight for America! is a new art installation about democracy that invites audiences to play a war game — battling over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.








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