Finding Information on Native American Boarding Schools Difficult Task July 20, 2021 A photograph archived at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows a group of Indigenous students who attended the Ramona Industrial School in Santa Fe. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:07:54 0:00 Pop-out player The black-and-white photographs had stayed hidden for years. The images showed Native American students who were part of the first group to attend a boarding school in New Mexico. A boarding school is a school where students live during the school term.