Thursday, July 21, 2022

US congregations face their complicity in trauma of Native boarding schools

Sr. Macaria Murphy, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration, poses with students and lay staff in a classroom at St. Mary's Catholic Indian Boarding School in Odanah, Wisconsin, in this undated photo. (Courtesy of FSPA)

US congregations face their complicity in trauma of Native boarding schools

by Dan Stockman
Jul 21, 2022  ncr

"Aren't we supposed to be the good people? ... But our intent was so different than our impact." U.S. women religious look at a legacy of schools that were part of a federal policy attempting to destroy Native culture.

 

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