The United States must uphold its federal trust responsibility to tribes by honoring treaty obligations, protecting and strengthening inherent tribal sovereignty, protecting tribal lands held in trust, and providing for a prosperous future for tribal communities.
Below you can find 11 key senators who have the most power in the Senate when it comes to Native American advocacy.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Christian churches collaborated with the government to create hundreds of boarding schools for Native American children. The conditions at these institutions, some of them Quaker-run, were horrific. Abuse, malnutrition, and even death were commonplace.
Yet, the United States government has never truly acknowledged the historical trauma of the Indian boarding school era. We can change that in this Congress.