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Quakers and Forced Assimilation (unabridged)

Authored by: Paula Palmer

Unabridged transcript of Western Friend interview with Paula Palmer, conducted on May 20, 2015.

Paula Palmer is the director of Toward Right Relationship, a project formed by Boulder Friends Meeting (IMYM) in response to the call by Indigenous leaders for people of all faith traditions to raise awareness about historical and ongoing injustices committed against Native peoples and to find ways of implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Paula was awarded the Pendle Hill 2015 Cadbury Scholarship to research the roles that Quakers played in conceptualizing, promoting, and carrying out policies of forced assimilation of Native peoples over the last two centuries. Paula spoke by phone with Western Friend on May 20, 2015. The following text is an edited transcript of portions of that interview. To learn more about Paula’s work, visit: boulderfriendsmeeting.org/ipc-right-relationship.

Audience:
HS and older
Genre:
History
Medium:
Print document
Time period:
1800s
Topic
Community , Diversity, Equity, & Antiracism , Integrity