Genoa Indian Industrial School

Marker planned at Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Please join us for the dedication of the Nebraska State Historical Marker at the Genoa Indian School Interpretive Center. Friday, May 30 at 2 p.m.

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Capitol illuminated orange for Genoa Indian School

News Staff

Thursday, February 20, 2025

LINCOLN — Winter weather postponed plans to illuminate the Nebraska State Capitol orange to honor the survivors and descendants of the Genoa Indian Industrial School.Originally scheduled to happen on Thursday, Feb. 20, state officials announced that the plans were moved to Feb.

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No remains found at possible grave site

Rick Holtz

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

GENOA — The search for human remains in connection with the Genoa Indian Industrial School did not lead to any human remains.

The manual training building as it appears today. The building houses the foundation's Interpretive Center. Photos provided

The 33rd Annual Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation Recognition and Remembrance Day is August 12 in Genoa

News Staff

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

The gathering will begin with remarks from foundation members in the St. Rose of Lima Community Center at 116 N. Elm St. in Genoa.

A team of archeologists dig at the site that could be the lost cemetery connected to the Genoa Indian Industrial School. The cemetery was lost to time after the Native American boarding school closed in 1931. NCJ photo by Rick Holtz

Digging for Truth

Rick Holtz

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

GENOA — The search continues this week in Genoa as an archaeological team searches for human remains in connection to the Genoa Indian Industrial School. Last week Nebraska State Archeologist Dave Williams and his team began the process of unearthing a possible site of the school’s cemetery.