“A Twin Policy”

How the U.S. weaponized treaties and education to take Indigenous lands

Indigenously Illustration (Earthguide / Univ. of California, iStock, Carlisle Indian School Digital Resources)

Only recently, the legacy of Federal Indian boarding schools was a national secret — everywhere, that is but in Indian Country. Now such truths about the violence, the rapes, the orchestrated plan to seize Indigenous lands have many Americans grappling to understand such tucked-away atrocity. Instead of discounting…