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The federal government used Indian Trust Funds to take children, destroy generational bonds and eliminate language and culture.

Two federal efforts — one in Congress and one at the U.S. Interior Department — could affect the search for marked and unmarked graves at the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway and Haskell University in Lawrence.

The United States used 12 Native American boarding schools in Kansas for forced cultural assimilation, Christian missions and expansionist land grabs.

The schools used “militarized” tactics to assimilate Native American children as young as 4 in environments that fostered “rampant physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; disease; malnourishment; overcrowding; and lack of health care.”