Samuel Torres invited those listening to his keynote talk on the history of Native American boarding schools during the second full day of the 84th annual Tekakwitha Conference in Bloomington “to widen the circle.”
The legacy of residential schools has been handed down to today s Native Americans.
Jody Roy s uncle was sexually and physically abused in Canada. Terry Cornell had three family members who never came home from a residential school in the U.S.
So when Pope Francis apologized to Canadian Indigenous for the ways in which many members of the church and of religious communities cooperated in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation at residential schools, Native Americans, like man
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