Quakers and residential boarding schools

A nice Friends Jour­nal opin­ion piece from San­dra Boone Mur­phy on rec­on­cil­ing Quak­ers’ past involve­ment with Native Amer­i­can res­i­den­tial schools. Paula Palmer wrote a detailed arti­cle on this in 2016 (and also talked about it in a 2019 Quak­er­S­peak video). It’s fas­ci­nat­ing to me how Friends try­ing to do good so often did things we look back on as horrific. 

Quakers, Indian Boarding Schools, and Indigenous Justice Today
Quak­ers, Indi­an Board­ing Schools, and Indige­nous Jus­tice Today 

In 1819, the Unit­ed States enact­ed a series of poli­cies that led to the cre­ation of Indi­an boarding…

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Posted November 25th, 2022 , in Quaker.