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Catholic schools for Native Americans, known for abuse and assimilation, try to do good

Leisa Irwin · 8/2/165:51 PM

Catholic schools for Native Americans, known for abuse and assimilation, try to do good By Naomi Schaefer Riley - Washington Post “The majority of the kids I went to school with are dead,” says Manny Jules, “because of the experience they had, the abuse.” Jules, 63, is the former chief of the Kamloops band of First Nations in British Columbia. As a child, he attended a residential Catholic school, where he remembers students experiencing physical, sexual and emotional abuse while separated...

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