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Students from Fort Albany Residential School reading in class overseen by a nun, circa 1945. From the Edmund Metatawabin collection at the University of Algoma. (Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Rennie Nahanee
As an indigenous person who works for the Catholic Church, I have pondered the value of an apology to the former students of the residential schools.
FaithFeatures
Eileen Markey
Activists see a moral imperative for protecting our water.
Arts & CultureBooks
Thomas J. Shelley
Thomas J. Shelley reviews "Continental Ambitions" by
Residents of an “Indian school,” Regina, Saskatchewan, 1908.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Dean Dettloff
Because of their sponsorship of “Indian schools,” Christians have a unique role to play in healing the wounds of the past.
Aerial shot of the Valley of the Gods in Bears Ears National Monument. (Photo courtesy of Creative Commons/Bureau of Land Management)
Politics & SocietyNews
Lauren Markoe - Religion News Service
A tribal coalition, which considers many sites within Bears Ears sacred, fears the Trump administration will take the unprecedented step of stripping a national monument of its designation, and leave their ancestral lands vulnerable.
Arts & CultureBooks
Thomas Powers
What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.