Quaker Indian Boarding Schools

"Quaker Indian Boarding Schools: Facing our History and Ourselves"

Lecture by Moore Fellowship recipient Paula Palmer

Native American organizations are asking churches to join in a Truth and Reconciliation process to bring about healing for Native families that continue to suffer the consequences of the Indian boarding schools. With fellowships from Pendle Hill and Friends Historical Library, Paula Palmer researched the role that Friends played in implementing the federal government's policy of forced assimilation of Native children. She will give an overview of the Quaker Indian boarding schools in New York, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian Territory (Oklahoma), and pose the query: Knowing what we know now about the impacts of forced assimilation, what does this history mean for Friends today? 

Sponsored by the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

For more information, contact: Celia Caust-Ellenbogen
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
phone: 610-328-8498      email: ccauste1@swarthmore.edu