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Quaker Indian Boarding Schools: Facing Ourselves and Our History

August 8, 2018 By NABS

In this article Paula Palmer addresses the Quaker’s role in Indian Boarding schools, and the effects these schools continue to have on boarding school survivors, their descendents, and communities. She amplifies this by adding perspectives and quotes from students and faculty who attended or worked at Quaker-run schools. In the end she calls on fellow Quakers to join actively partake in the healing process from this traumatic era.

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Source: Paula Palmer. “Quaker Indian Boarding Schools: Facing Ourselves and Our History.” October 1, 2016. Friends Journal. https://www.friendsjournal.org/quaker-indian-boarding-schools/

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