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by bcadmin | May 11, 2022 | Deb Haaland, Featured, Indigenous children, Interior Department, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Native American, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Hundreds of boarding schools supported by the U.S. government for 150 years sought to forcefully assimilate Native American and Indigenous children into white society, a first-of-its-kind report from the Interior Department said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 26, 2022 | American Indian, Deb Haaland, Featured, Indian Boarding Schools, Local News, NABS, Native American, News | 0 |
As the United States begins to confront this chapter of its history, so does the Catholic Church. According to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) — which has compiled what is generally regarded as the most comprehensive, albeit admittedly incomplete list of U.S. Indian boarding schools — at least 84 of the 367 identified schools were run by Catholic institutions through contracts with the U.S. government. A group of Catholic archivists researching the topic believe there were many more.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2022 | Boarding schools, Native American, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
A system of what’s been called “Indian boarding schools” operated in the United States for 100 years, starting in the 1860s. Approximately 360 schools were largely funded by the U.S. government, and many were operated by religious organizations, including the Catholic Church, said Allison Spies, archives manager for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 1, 2022 | African-American, Black Heritage series, Edmonia Lewis, Native American, News, Picks, Sculptor, Smithsonian American Art Museum, U.S. & World News, U.S. Postal Service, USPS | 0 |
Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition through works that reflected her Catholic faith and the dignity of people, is being commemorated on a new postage stamp.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2020 | Federal death row, Lezmond Mitchell, Native American, Navajo tribe member, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Catholic leaders have joined their voices with members of the Navajo Nation in opposing the Aug. 26 scheduled execution of Lezmond Mitchell, the only Native American on federal death row.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2020 | 1492 and All That, 2020, Bartolomé de las Casas, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Chief Seattle, Christopher Columbus, Columns, Duwamish, Ferdinand and Isabella, Native American, News, Oxford historian J.H. Elliott, political correctness, Robert Royal, Seattle Columbus Historical Fictions, Suquamish, Tainos, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Robert Royal: There are many today trying to make sure we never tell the truth about history. Cut our roots, though, and we’ll have no future.
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