The final act in America’s 19th Century conquest of Native Americans was to forcibly re-educate their children in Indian Boarding Schools.  Beginning in the 1880s the government embarked on an aggressive expansion of the boarding school system, taking children without permission and callously stripping them of their language, their culture and their identity.  The Pueblo of Isleta asked journalist Charles F. Lummis for help in freeing 15 of their children held at the Albuquerque Indian Boarding School.  Lummis’s articles brought national attention to the plight of the 15 children who the Indians called “Los Cautivos,” The Captives.