Taking Reparative Actions for the Harms of Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools
Friends have had many opportunities to learn how Quakers participated in the forced assimilation of Native children. As Native communities continue to work to heal and rebuild in the face of the generational trauma inflicted upon them, what are Friends doing in the spirit of acknowledgment, apology, and reparative actions?
During this workshop, speakers from three yearly meetings -- New England, Baltimore, and Alaska Friends Conference -- will share how they have discerned and carried out actions with the aim of building new relationships with Native communities based on truth, respect, and justice. Following the presentations, participants will be invited to ask questions and share actions they are contemplating or taking in other yearly meetings.
For more information about this work, you can find a one-hour slide presentation on the BHFH website: The Quaker Indigenous Boarding Schools: Facing our History and Ourselves
More resources are posted here.
This program is co-sponsored by Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, a program of Friends Peace Teams, and by the Quaker Indigenous Boarding School Research Network.
About Friends Peace Teams
Friends Peace Teams is a Spirit-led organization working to develop long-term relationships with communities in conflict around the world to create programs for peace building, healing and reconciliation.
About Beacon Hill Friends House
Beacon Hill Friends House is a Quaker Center for Learning and Action in downtown Boston, MA. Founded in 1957, its mission is "to embody the Quaker principles of faith, simplicity, integrity, community, and social responsibility in order to nurture and call forth the Light in all of us." BHFH lives into its mission by:
Providing a center where Friends and others can meet, worship, and learn
Advancing and fostering the principles of the Religious Society of Friends
Offering opportunities for leadership development, personal deepening, and collective action
Maintaining a diverse, intentional, residential community guided by Friends principles