Ella Chilcote (left), a senior criminal justice major, and Gia Barboza (right), assistant professor of criminal justice, collaborated on the study, funded by the Undergraduate Research Academy.
Though the U.S. government’s family separation policy at the border has dominated recent headlines, it’s not news for Native American communities.
For nearly a hundred years, beginning in the 1870s, Native children as young as five years old were forcibly removed from their families and sent to foster car