Among my many ball caps is one from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. I visited there while on a reporting trip a decade ago. HINU was founded as one of those horrific residential schools, both here and in Canada, in which indigenous children were ripped from their families and shipped off to harsh government institutions where their indigenous identity was brutally—and, not occasionally, fatally—stripped from them. Both Canada and the United States are trying to reckon with this sad and vicious history by listening to survivors and repatriating the bodies of the children who did not.

Gradually, Haskell shed its violent, racist past. In 1970, indigenous activists, whose efforts were inspired by the civil rights movement elsewhere, successfully turned what had be

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