Not to be forgotten: Missing and Indigenous in South Dakota According to the South Dakota Attorney General’s directory of missing persons, as of March 28, there are 90 missing persons in the state. Sixty-two of them are Indigenous; nearly 70%. Of those 62 missing Indigenous persons, 47 of them ( ...
US policies and actions related to Indigenous peoples, though often termed “racist” or “discriminatory,” are rarely depicted as what they are: classic cases of imperialism and a particular form of colonialism—settler colonialism. As anthropologist Patrick Wolfe writes, “The question of geno ...
How Boarding Schools Tried to ‘Kill the Indian’ Through Assimilation That was the mindset under which the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to attend “assimilation” boarding schools in the late 19th century. Decades later, those words — delivered in a speech ...