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Patty Talahongva, an award-winning freelance journalist who attended Phoenix Indian School in the 1978-79 school year, served as an advisory committee member to the new “Away From Home” exhibit at the Heard Museum. (Photo by Julian Hernandez/Cronkite News)

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Boarding school exhibit at Heard gets new look
Technology revitalizes Native American boarding school exhibit at the Heard Museum

As visitors enter the Heard Museum exhibit “Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories,” they encounter an eye-level digital screen with a grid display of hundreds of school portraits of indigenous students who attended scores of such boarding schools across the United States.

By Julian Hernandez, Cronkite News March 19, 2019