US report details church-state collusion on Native schools

A brand new Interior Department report underscores how intently the U.S. authorities collaborated with church buildings in working boarding schools for Indigenous kids.

The federal authorities noticed church buildings as helpful in Christianizing Native kids as a part of a undertaking to sever them from their tradition, their identities and finally their land.

The function of church buildings varieties a part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report, launched Wednesday after a yearlong assessment that discovered Indigenous kids have been despatched to no less than 408 schools from 1819 to 1969. Catholic and Protestant church teams ran most of the schools.