Twice, Native Americans sabotaged the iron rails themselves ... one of whom was crushed beneath the train's boiler. Of all the Plains tribes, Pawnee Indians had the greatest presence on the ...

Broc Anderson, director of historic sites for the Nebraska State Historical Society and an Oglala Lakota tribal member, ...

Most Americans know very little about this history, says Crystal Echo Hawk, of the Pawnee Nation ... trauma that affects Native peoples today," Echo Hawk tells PEOPLE. "This is cultural genocide." ...

In 2016, Echo Hawk, a member of the Pawnee Nation ... making," she tells PEOPLE for this week's Women Changing the World issue. "We stand on the shoulders of so many Native American elders and ...