Culture

Raeanna Smith, a Peach Springs Elementary School paraprofessional, ran this year’s La Paz Trail of Tears Run on April 21 because she wanted to bring her Hualapai ancestors home to Hákđugwi:v.

Ann Axtell Morris knew Christopher Columbus did not discover America.

In her 1933 book, “Digging in the Southwest,” Morris, an archaeologist, wrote that the ships Columbus arrived on would sound like “the death knell” for the Indigenous populations and the country they called home.

The story of what happened at Hwéeldi might have been lost forever.

An explosive report released by the U.S. Department of the Interior last week represents the first step in accounting for the federal government’s role in a willful and deliberate use of federal boarding schools to forcibly separate Native children from their families, lands and culture in order to make way for the expansion of the United States over two centuries.