Imagine 32 Cayuse teenagers in 1930, 16 gals and 16 guys starting families, 1 child each, 16 total, split 50/50 baby boys and girls. Unbeknownst (this is fictional as only 1 full Cayuse person was alive in 1902), the gals did not know they had been sterilized after giving birth to their 1st child. In 1945, 8 gals and 8 guys produced 8 babies, 4 boys and 4 girls who in 1960 did the same, sterilizations without consent continuing, leaving 2 Cayuse on this Planet to have their 1 child in 1975 (but happy and not tired with 9 new ponies per HEW). 
All this was tough to keep track of: California and Oregon herded people of different languages together (Oregon has 4 reservations west of the Cascades), but in Washington there are 29 recognized (Federal) reservations, only 4 east of the Cascades. Extinction does not need to kill off a plant or animal species, just interrupt its ability to reproduce. Bonhoeffer Gardens was created to highlight the ongoing disappearance of ~150 (of 900) the Cascadia Floristic Region’s native plants while providing online lessons on (at least) 2 subjects no longer taught: Native Botany and Local Indigenous and Pioneer History. (State Code’s require teachers to include material of the Reservation closest to their school.) Should we, like Robert Redford, cleverly hide this story in a murder mystery Western, “Dark Winds,” now airing, well worth viewing (also found in Yellowstone)? Does this explain the reason for declining small tribes’ populations? Or, best not to host lessons like this (as we have been told regarding use of herbicides, clear-cutting, and cattle grazing on BLM and DNR lands, fossil fuel subsidies, Hanford, Puget Sound becoming a Dead Sea …)?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15017118/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayuse_people
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=28B.10.710
https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-history/
https://www.plc215.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Green-Creed.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_American_women|
https://daily.jstor.org/the-little-known-history-of-the-forced-sterilization-of-native-american-women/
https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/a-brief-history-on-the-forced-sterilization-of-indigenous-peoples-in-the-us
https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d
https://ospi.k12.wa.us/student-success/resources-subject-area/time-immemorial-tribal-sovereignty-washington-state
The US Agency that provided fully equipped RV’s (vans) to visit Native Americans to assist in childbirth (a practice cloned in Canada) was the:
Bureau of Indian Affairs
FBI
Health, Education and Welfare
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