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Thursday, July 29, 2021
US churches and traumatic legacy of Native American schools
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U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150
boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries. Some U.S. churches have been reckoning with this activity for years
through ceremonies, apologies and archival investigations, while others
are just getting started. Some advocates say churches have more work to
do in opening their archives, educating the public about what was done
in the name of their faith and helping former students and their
relatives tell their stories of family trauma.
“We all need to work together on this,” said the Rev. Bradley Hauff, a
Minnesota-based Episcopal priest and missioner for Indigenous Ministries
with the Episcopal Church. “What’s happening in Canada, that’s a wakeup call to us,” said Hauff, who is enrolled with the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
This photo made available by the Presbyterian Historical Society,
Philadelphia shows students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka,
Alaska in the summer of 1883. U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations
operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th
centuries. Native American and Alaskan Native children were regularly
severed from their tribal families, customs, language and religion and
brought to the schools in a push to assimilate and Christianize them. (AP)
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