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US churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools


US churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools
U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries. 
By PETER SMITH
Associated Press
July 22, 2021 7:15pm
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The discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada have prompted renewed calls for a reckoning over the traumatic legacy of similar schools in the United States and in particular by the churches that operated many of them.
U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries, according to ....

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