"You can wear silk, but only in a certain number of colors—black, white, yellow, green, dark blue, red, purple, or tawny brown," Howie said of "sumptuary laws" local to 16th century Genoa.

The Genoa Indian Industrial School operated from 1884 to 1934. The color orange is now associated with Indian boarding schools, and symbolizes the loss of culture, freedom, and identity ...

Children from more than 40 tribal nations were brought to Genoa. It was the fourth largest non-reservation Native boarding school in the United States. The color orange is associated with Native ...

Orange painted the sky at sunset on Thursday evening, and glowed on the Capitol building after—literally shining a light on one of the darkest chapters of Nebraska’s history.