Mark Trahant

Mark Trahant is editor-in-chief of Indian Country Today and a former board member of YES! Magazine He’s a member of the Shoshone-Bannock tribes.

A group of Chiracahua Apaches on their first day at Carlisle Indian school, 1886.

Indian Country remembers the trauma of children taken from their parents

June 19, 2018Commentary

As Congress prepares to debate separating families at the border, a look back at the United States’ past with a practice critics call cruel.