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Pope’s visit to Canada comes in wake of U.S. report on boarding schools

by | Jul 26, 2022 | , , , , , , , , | 0 |

A federal report May 11 found that for 150 years hundreds of government-supported boarding schools in the United States — some run by the Catholic Church, including in Minnesota — sought to forcefully assimilate Native American and Indigenous children into white society.

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Bishops meet with tribal leaders to explore Church’s role in Indian boarding school history

by | Dec 22, 2021 | , , , , , , | 0 |

Representatives from four of Minnesota’s six dioceses, including three bishops, and Native American leaders from across the state met Dec. 9 in Onamia to discuss how the Church and tribes can work together to understand more fully the experience of indigenous children in Catholic Church-run boarding schools in Minnesota in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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