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US churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools
PETER SMITH, Associated Press
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1of3In this 1910s photo provided by the United Church of Canada Archives, students write on a chalkboard at the Red Deer Indian Industrial School in Alberta. In Canada, where more than 150,000 Indigenous children attended residential schools over more than a century, a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified 3,201 deaths amid poor conditions. (United Church of Canada Archives via AP)The United Church of Canada Archives/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3This photo made available by the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia shows students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska in the summer of 1883. U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries. Native American and Alaskan Native children were regularly severed from their tribal families, customs, language and
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U.S. churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native residential schools
More than 150 boarding schools for Indigenous children in the United States were operated by religious groups between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries.
By PETER SMITHAssociated Press
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Students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, in the summer of 1883. Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia via AP
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.