By Glenys Echavarri and Holly Norton History Colorado Our collective history is punctuated by tragedies, and while these tragedies need to be faced head-on, the following discussion may be upsetting for some readers. For many Americans, the announcement this past June that the graves of 215 children were found in Kamloops, Canada, was the first time they had heard of residential schools for Indigenous children, or that there were atrocities visited on the students who attended them. Since then, more than 1,000 graves of First Nations children have been located at other former residential schools in Canada. Public discourse around this long-ignored history is growing, and the US boarding schools that provided a blueprint for Canadian residential schools are facing a much needed reckoning as well.…