For generations, Native children were taken -  from their families, their languages, their world - placed in systems that saw their needs, but not their nations. By the time the federal government investigated, large numbers of Native children had been removed from their homes, many losing not just their parents, but the ordinary inheritance of knowing where they came from. Echohawk, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation, understood that keeping children safe and keeping them connected were not the same thing. For more than forty years, she has worked to put decisions about Native children back into Native hands - co-founding the Denver Indian Family Resource Center, and helping write the Indian Child Welfare Act's protections into Colorado law. The work was rarely loud. In Pawnee tradition, deeds were not meant to announce themselves. But the results speak for her - generations of Native children today know who their people are.