Indigenous people

Back in 2021, news outlets around the world announced a scandal involving Canadian government schools and missing indigenous children. Starting in the 1800s, Canada built and opened a series of boarding schools where children from local native people could be educated or, more accurately, assimilated into modern Western culture. A majority of these institutions were operated by the Roman Catholic church and, before they were shut down toward the end of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of children were taken from their families, compelled to speak English or French, taught Christianity, and required to dress according to European styles.

Today, however, at several of the sites where the burials were confidently asserted to have taken place, no physical evidence of human remains has been found.

Pope Francis’ recent apologies to Canada’s First Nations was a good start to correcting the egregious wrongs done to many indigenous peoples in the name of “Christian mission.” Now, other Christians should follow suit.

On Monday, Pope Francis apologized for the Catholic Church’s involvement with Canada’s Indigenous residential schools, which forced Native people to assimilate into Christian society.

A recently approved Southern Baptist Convention resolution condemns the forced assimilation and conversions that took place years ago among Native Americans.

A Native American tribe member is urging Americans to continue praying for Indigenous communities that have been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Researchers in Nebraska have discovered the names of 102 indigenous children who died at a federal boarding school in the Genoa, Nebraska area during its operation between 1884 and 1934.

On Monday, Americans will celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day alongside Columbus Day for the first time.

Canada’s 90 Roman Catholic bishops have “unequivocally” apologized for that church’s role in the Indian Residential School system that about 150,000 of the country’s Indigenous people were forced to attend, where they often suffered emotional, psychological, physical and sexual abuse.

InterVarsity Press has just published a translation of the New Testament for Native American readers called the "First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament."

A church board member is offering forgiveness to the person responsible for setting the church he leads ablaze.