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Designed to help find missing Indigenous people, new Colorado office falls short, advocates say

DENVER — Jennifer Black Elk remembers her nephew, Wanbli Oyote Vigil, as the kind of person to drop everything to help a loved one move back across state lines. Twice.

The Denver Post · Feb 23, 2023

A #toosoon moment? Pope in headdress draws mixed response

It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly donning a full Indigenous headdress, after he apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “disastrous” residential school system for Indigenous children

The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2022

First pope, now US churches face boarding-school reckoning

U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their histories operating boarding schools for Native Americans

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2022