“Commentary: The calls for justice in every corner of our globe continue to get louder and louder. Not only because injustices continue happening across our world, but because people have been awakened, and they are not allowing our governments and ourselves to turn a blind eye to systemic violence and abuse impacting our communities.

The world is being forced to reckon with the brutal reality of systemic genocide against Indigenous peoples around the world after the remains of 215 children were found in the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Southern British Columbia. Residential schools are what we in the United States have come to know as ‘Native American Boarding Schools’. While this story has made the news globally, this horrible discovery has been met with silence and inaction right here in New Mexico––despite the well documented history of atrocities that were carried out in our five boarding schools.”