Brenda J. Child

Gilda Soosay, president of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Parish Council in Maskwacis, Canada, where Pope Francis visited the site of a state school for Indigenous children. Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images

July 29, 2022

Christianity was a major part of Indigenous boarding schools – a historian whose family survived them explains

Brenda J. Child, University of Minnesota

A historian of the residential schools explains how religion played a key role in assimilationist systems for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States.

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Christianity was a major part of Indigenous boarding schools – a historian whose family survived them explains

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