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Take Carlisle Boulevard to Indian School Road. At 12th and Indian School, where there's now a McDonalds, two convenience stores, and a hotel, look around. The Presbyterian-founded Albuquerque Indian School (AIS) was here. Walk north and west to Menaul Street to a little park. Now known as the AIS burial ground, its use was unacknowledged until city workers installing sprinklers in 1973 discovered the remains of children.

These names on the land in New Mexico return inexorably to the national project to "civilize the Indian," initiated at the federal level in Carlisle...