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The chickens come home to roost on the church steeple


Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
05-11-1998
The chickens come home to roost on the church steeple

The Catholic Church has issued an apology and has asked for forgiveness from the American Indians who attended Marty (S.D.) Indian Mission. Sister Miriam Shindelar apologized for the harsh treatment given the former students when the mission was a boarding school.

Twenty years ago, when this column "Notes from Indian Country" first appeared in the Rapid City (S.D.) Journal, one of the issues I wanted to write about was the role of the Catholic Church in the mental and physical abuse of Indian children at the mission schools. As a former student of Holy Rosary Indian Mission on the Pine Ridge ...

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