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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The United States GOVERNMENT (not the Catholic church) forced Native Americans families to send their children to boarding schools. Why does the crappy government get a pass on their violent past?

Native American Boarding Schools (also known as Indian Boarding Schools) were established by the U.S. government in the late 19th century as an effort to assimilate Indigenous youth into mainstream American culture through education. This era was part of the United States’ overall attempt to kill, annihilate, or assimilate Indigenous peoples and eradicate Indigenous culture.

The Native American assimilation era first began in 1819, when the U.S. Congress passed The Civilization Fund Act. The act encouraged American education to be provided to Indigenous societies and therefore enforced the “civilization process".

The passing of this act eventually led to the creation of the federally funded Native American Boarding Schools and initiated the beginning of the Indian Boarding School era. The duration of this era ran from 1860 until 1978. Approximately 357 boarding schools operated across 30 states during this era both on and off reservations and housed over 60,000 native children. A third of these boarding schools were operated by Christian missionaries as well as members of the federal government.

Native American Boarding Schools first began operating in 1860 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs established the first on-reservation boarding school on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington. Shortly after, the first off-reservation boarding school was established in 1879. The Carlisle Indian School located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was founded by Richard Henry Pratt. He modeled the boarding school off an education program he designed while overseeing Fort Marion Prison in St. Augustine, Florida. He developed the program after experimenting with Native American assimilation education on imprisoned and captive Indigenous peoples. Pratt served as the Headmaster of the Carlisle Indian School for 25 years and was famously known for his highly influential philosophy which he described in a speech he gave in 1892. He stated, “A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-residential-schools

The government did this.

Attendance to the boarding schools was made mandatory by the U.S. Government regardless of whether or not Indigenous families gave their consent. Upon arrival, Native children were given Anglo-American names, bathed in kerosene, given military-style clothing in exchange for their traditional clothing, and their hair would be shaved off for the boys and cut into short bob styles for girls.[/quote]

Terrible -- and we wouldn't/don't do this type of thing today.  We have been taught to respect other religions, even while practicing a different religion.  Someday, hopefully soon, this respect will extend to people who do not practice any religion at all.[/quote]

Why thread jack every post to the topic of atheists?

This thread is a retread of an earlier attack of the Catholic faith, which failed miserably when [b]it was shown lots of different religions (including Episcopals, Presbyterians, Quakers, and Methodists) all ran Indian boarding schools[/b] at the direction of the United States Government.

Indian boarding schools were not a Catholic problem-and taking every thread off topic to push your pet theory that atheists are not respected is against forum rules as well as against reality. If people don’t like you-it’s not because of your religious or lack of religion- it’s your attitude and personality and the way you treat and interact with others in society. [/quote]
But did they all act the same or were some a little or even a lot more brutal than others?  The actions in 1923 by the Catholic schools were truly horrible?  Are you saying Quakers and Episcopals acted that way, too??[/quote]

You need to research and report back. The US Government did alot of bad stuff too. They made the system. Many religious groups got money from the US gov to “kill the indian.”

The obsession with blaming Catholics for Indian boarding schools is pathological. This is the second, identical thread about it. -not a Catholic[/quote]
Here is some info, "The Catholic Church must come clean—completely—about what it did to Native Americans
The Editors
June 30, 2021".  Read the article here: https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/06/30/native-american-boarding-schools-catholic-church-investigation-240950[/quote]

As do others, is PO’s point, I believe. Why are you singling out one set of the boarding school contractors? Is it because a TV dramatization is all you have bothered to learn about this history? Can you not understand that not all Catholics were bad actors and also that those who were were not the only ones? Hold all of the actual bad actors accountable. [/quote]

And I hope you understand that the fact that not ALL catholics were bad actors, does not excuse the role of a trusted organization like the Church in these atrocities.[/quote]
+1
Catholics frequently want credit for all the “charity” they do, but don’t want to be associated with all the massive things they did that effectively tortured millions. [/quote]

The US government also ran boarding schools.

Ever hear of The Trail of Tears?

The US government is completely responsible for the destruction of Native American, their lives, culture, wealth, etc.

The US government stole every inch of land from Native Americans. [/quote]
No, I just cited how, in this specific incident, it was definitely the Catholic church as the primary driver of this aspect of genocide. The Spanish were effectively the first Europeans to be in the Americas and they definitely began this continent’s history of violence toward Natives, and the Catholic church absolutely drove it.[/quote]

None of what you cite supports the "primary driver" claim.[/quote]

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