Reckoning – Quakers and Indian Boarding Schools
Schools don’t have graveyards. At least, that is what many believed until some gruesome recent discoveries.
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Schools don’t have graveyards. At least, that is what many believed until some gruesome recent discoveries.
My grandfather descended from a family of farmers – homesteaders, given cheap land after the government committed genocide to clear it for white families like mine. When my grandfather married my grandmother, he was welcomed into her family’s business: the lumber mill, turning forests into 2x4s.
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[The following text was excerpted from the keynote presentation to Lake Erie Yearly Meeting on July 30, 2021. The unabridged text is published online at: https://westernfriend.org/media/healing-native-peoples-thru-truth.]