This Land: How US gov't takes Native children

Rebecca Nagle, Meghna Chakrabarti (On Point, 9/14/21); Xochitl, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

Host Rebecca Nagle, This Land podcast

In This Land, a custody trial over Native children heads to the Supreme Court. It's a Texas case involving a Native child and white foster parents.

It caught journalist Rebecca Nagle's eye. She discovered it was a part of something much, much bigger -- the slow genocide and planned erasure of Native Americans.

It is still happening: the US government is still stealing Native children from their parents and tribes to wash the "Indian" out.

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