American Indian Boarding Schools and the Doctrine of Discovery: A Community Conversation
Territorialism, capital gain, and dominance leading to the U.S. Government’s American Indian Boarding School initiatives have roots that long pre-date Columbus. Religious policy that materially benefits one group of people but diminishes others have left a track record of destruction for American Indians while continuing to serve as a placeholder that marks where we are as a nation. Join panelists Joseph McNeil, Karen Van Fossan, and Hollie Mackey for a discussion about how federal policy and religious doctrine have served to advance religion as an expression of free market capitalism at the expense of Indigenous communities in the United States.
