Native Bound Unbound is committed to telling these stories and remembering all those whose memories were forcibly suppressed or forgotten. Today we remember those at Napalpí who gave their lives.

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In 2004, exactly eight decades later, groups initiated civil action for compensation for damages and in 2014 an investigation was reopened. In 2018, a forensic anthropology team discovered four mass graves and a memorial site was built in the area.

Between 400 and 500 Mocoít and Qom people were killed.

Although an investigation into the events was opened that year, corruption led to all those involved and charged to be acquitted.

While hundreds were gathered outside, a group of national police and landowners opened fire on the group. Those not killed in the initial event were later hunted down and murdered to get rid of witnesses. The police and others took human remains as “trophies” and displayed them.

By 1924, local leaders had organized gatherings and petitions to redress the government for grievances. On July 19, an airplane named “Chaco II” flew over the reduction and dropped sweets and food to lure people out of their homes.

Along with not being able to leave, the inhabitants of the reduction also suffered from awful housing, sanitary, and food conditions and were forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations and mills.

Napalpí was a “reduction” (similar to a reservation in the United States of America) that was created in 1911 when the Mocoít, Qom, Pilagás, Wichís, Vilelas and others were captured and forcibly resettled.

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She was also well known in genealogical circles and volunteered her time and efforts to help others recover the names and information about their own ancestors, helping to relink the past, present, and future. The world has lost a great mind and generous soul.

Cloas’s story reminds us that the struggle for freedom in this land has always been unequal and that many of those who fought did so without being granted the rights they defended.

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While liberty and land were promised to white soldiers and British deserters, Indigenous men like Cloas were conscripted, coerced, and denied the very freedom being declared.

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At Native Bound Unbound, we’re building an archive to recover these stories and equipping scriptwriters and creators with real historical data to craft new narratives grounded in truth.

Because history deserves more than a rewrite. It deserves accountability.

Comanche raids were part of a larger system of colonial violence, not the root of it.