Bureau of Indian Affairs faces deepest cuts in US History
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day this year — a day that ought to be a moment of reflection, honor, and renewal of Indigenous heritage — the reality instead evokes mourning, shame, and questions of national accountability.
The United States has never made full reparations to the Indigenous nations and individuals who endured genocide, dispossession, apartheid, and ongoing structural violence — before and after the founding of this country. What little “penance” has been offered is a fraction of what justice would require.
