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Catholic Church repudiates legal doctrine used against tribal nations (April 3, 2023)
The Catholic Church formally repudiated a religious doctrine that was used to justify the theft of lands from indigenous peoples in North America.
The Road to Healing
Cronkite News: Indian boarding schools confront genocidal legacy (August 30, 2022)
Few dispute that Indian boarding schools led to more than a century of abuse, systematically seizing Indigenous land, separating children from their families, destroying communities and working to erase tribal languages, religions, cultures and economies.
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Charges laid against Native woman reported as missing in Canada (August 8, 2022)
Dawn Walker has been accused of faking her disappearance and that of her child in a case that attracted widespread attention in Canada.
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Doug George-Kanentiio: Residential school survivors reject Pope Francis’ apology (August 8, 2022)
No Native entity knows the answers and to truly heal we need our children returned to our homes.
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Native America Calling: The history and protocols of headdresses (August 1, 2022)
The pictures of Pope Francis wearing a headdress spurred controversy across the globe — and across social media.
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Pope Francis apologizes for Catholic Church’s role at Native residential schools (July 27, 2022)
Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, delivers remarks at Maskwacis Park in Alberta, Canada.
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The Conversation: A brief history of the Catholic Church and Native peoples (July 25, 2022)
Religious communities, bishops and popes were variously complicit in a system that dispossessed Indigenous peoples and cruelly oppressed their children at Native residential schools.
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Residential School Survivors of Akwesasne: No apology without justice (July 25, 2022)
Nothing will be done for us without us. No one may speak on our behalf without our express approval.
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Native America Calling: Pope Francis in Canada (July 21, 2022)
Pope Francis is set to visit with First Nations leaders again, this time on their own homelands.
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The Conversation: Catholic Church avoids accounting for abuses at residential schools (April 8, 2022)
On an intuitive and experiential level, the Catholic Church as an institution was an agent of harm. But Pope Francis has avoided saying so.
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Native America Calling: The papal apology (April 7, 2022)
The apology from Pope Francis sought forgiveness for the role the Catholic Church played in atrocities at Native residential schools.
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Doug George-Kanentiio: Residential school survivors deserve justice, not an apology (April 6, 2022)
Tens of thousands of Native children suffered abuse at residential schools run by the Catholic Church, all with the compliance of the Canadian government.
Every Child Matters
Native America Calling: Catholic reconciliation in Canada? (November 4, 2021)
Pope Francis is scheduled to meet with an Indigenous delegation when he visits Canada in December.
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