By: Ardis E. Parshall - March 24, 2020 Nellie Bleak Finguar (later Young) (1876-1952) was the mother of two young daughters in 1904 when she left her girls with her mother in Mancos, Colorado, and accepted work at the Navajo boarding school in Tohatchie, New Mexico – a widow, she had to do something to support little Ida and Alice. So off she went to the barracks-like buildings of the boarding school in the desert to work long hours as...
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