A Native-led coalition plans to digitize and share thousands of archival pages about schools that forcibly enrolled Native children and erased their culture.
, the Quakers — or members of the Religious Society of Friends — separated Native American children from their families to teach them Christianity and force them to participate in Western education.next spring, will include boarding school records from Kansas, New York, Pennsylvania and four other states, per theSuch schools weren’t just a Quaker thing.
Having more information about the Quaker-run boarding schools will help us understand what happened in them and how they were organized — history that has largely been out of public view.
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