Life As A Young and Native American

Almost three million people currently identify as Native American — despite this, their place in both our history, and the modern day, is largely ignored. For a century, the U.S government believed what was best for Native American kids was to strip them of their families and communities, their culture and language, their hair and clothes. Now, mounting research has demonstrated how this policy has decimated communities and been deadly to Native peoples. “Identification with a particular cultural backgrou