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During the 19th century, almost all Christian denominations collaborated with the U.S. government's policy of forced assimilation by operating "Indian boarding schools." Now the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior are calling on churches to provide information about their participation in this program of cultural genocide. How are Quakers responding to this call?
The Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools Research Network (QIBS) is a group of volunteer researchers who are gathering information about Quaker-operated and Quaker-influenced boarding schools. Their research will be made available to Native American tribes and family members, DoI investigators, and the public. In this webinar, QIBS researchers will share some of their findings and discuss their research process. They will invite interested researchers to join them in this work of truth-telling, accountability, and collaboration.
For background information, watch this slide presentation.