Peter Smith

Native American and Alaska Native children were regularly severed from their tribal families, customs, language and religion and brought to schools run by U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations in a push to assimilate and Christianize them.

Ecologists have begun peering into an intimate, overlooked world that barely existed 100,000 years ago: the great indoors. They want to know what lives in our homes with us and how we "colonize" spaces with other species -- viruses, bacteria, microbes.