Atoning for sins against Indigenous people begins with confronting the past. Red Cloud Indian School is showing the way. | America Magazine

Especially on this day we need to reflect not on Columbus, but on the lives of the Indigenous people who first lived on this land…

When Holy Rosary Mission was founded on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1888, many of the Jesuits and Franciscan sisters who established the mission learned the Lakota language. The missionaries believed this method of inculturation would be pastorally effective.
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