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California Native Boarding Schools

Published: Jan. 19, 2024

Friends, this is a devastating report about the kidnapping and brutal treatment of Native children in the California boarding schools.

California Friends, please consider circulating this report among Pacific Yearly Meeting Friends.

Thanks to Gordon Bugbee for bringing this report to my attention.

The “Outing Programs”

Human Trafficking at California’s Native American Boarding Schools

by Jean Pfaelzer, Yale University Press, 2023. Supportive Testimony H.R. 5444 / S. 2907 the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the US.

Click here to read the report.

from Paula Palmer, Boulder Friends Meeting (1/14/2024)

Topics: Diversity, Equity, & Antiracism

Tags: Indian Boarding Schools

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