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A new project is building a massive website uncovering the enslavement of Native Americans.

Why it matters: The death of George Floyd two years ago drew attention to systemic racism and the legacy of slavery, but the general public knows very little of Indigenous enslavement in the U.S. and Latin America.

Details: "Native Bound-Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Americans Enslaved" promises to digitize and piece together stories of the millions of Indigenous people whose lives were shaped by slavery.

Zoom out: Indigenous slavery co-existed with African slavery from the sixteenth up to the late nineteenth century, Andrés Reséndez wrote in "The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America."

What they're saying: "We are doing this for descendant communities to find themselves their ancestors reflected in an archive," Estevan Rael-Gálvez, a descendant and the creator of Native Bound-Unbound, told Axios.

The intrigue: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced in February it had awarded Native Bound-Unbound a three-year, $1.5 million grant to help build the website.

Don't forget: Many Black victims killed in the 1921 Tulsa Massacre were descendants of Freedmen -- formerly enslaved Black people once owned by tribal members.

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