The Quaker Indian Boarding Schools · (54,743 Indians) • Presbyterian ... Quaker Shawnee Mission...
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The Quaker Indian Boarding Schools
Facing our History and Ourselves
Paula PalmerBoulder Friends Meeting
www.boulderfriendsmeeting.org/ipc-right-relationship
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Ottawa Quaker School, Indian Territory, 1872
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“Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture…
“States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of and redress for any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities.”
-- Article 8, U.N. Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples
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Paula Palmer and Guthrie MillerField Research, August 18-Sept 1, 2015
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John, Rebecca, and Joseph Newlin (teachers) , Mahlon Stubbs (Indian agent) and Addison Stubbs (interpreter) and their
Quaker families at Kansa Agency, Kansas, 1871Courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
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The Kaw Agency building, August 2015, AllegawahoMemorial Heritage Park, Council Grove, Kansas
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Otoe and Missouri Manual Labor Boarding School, 1873
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Remnant of the Otoe Manual Labor Boarding School, Barnston NE, August 2015
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Fort Sill Indian School, Indian Territory
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Fort Sill Indian Boarding School, Lawton OK, August 2015Closed in 1980
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Kickapoo Friends Mission and School, Kickapoo Reservation, Indian Territory
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Kickapoo Friends Center, Evangelical Friends Church, Mid-America Yearly Meeting, McLoud OK, August 2015
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Kiowa Chief Ton-ne-onco (Kicking Bird) at his lodge
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I. Before the Ulysses S. Grant Administration1796-1868Quakers provide schools by invitation
II. During the Ulysses S. Grant AdministrationThe Peace Policy (aka Quaker Policy)1869-1877Quakers collaborate in government policy of forcedassimilation
III. After the Ulysses S. Grant Administration 1878-2006Less collaboration with government, more missions
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I. Before the Ulysses S. Grant Administration 1796-1868
New York: Oneida, Stockbridge, Allegeny Seneca, Cattaraugus Seneca, Tunesassa Boarding School
Ohio: Shawnees at Wapakoneta
Kansas: Shawnee
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Tunesassa Indian Boarding School, New York1852 - 1938
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II. During the Grant Administration (1869-1877)
Quakers operated schools for these tribes:
New York: Seneca
Nebraska: Santee Sioux, Iowa, Sac & Fox, Omaha, Winnebago, Otoe, Missouri, Pawnee
Kansas: Kanza, Shawnee, Potawatomie, Quapaw, Kickapoo
Indian Territory: Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Caddo, Wichita, Seneca, Kickapoo, Absentee Shawnee, Potawatomie, Cherokee, Sac & Fox, Modoc, Quapaw, Ottawa, Miami, Peoria, Iowa
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• Methodists, fourteen agencies in the Pacific North- west (54,743 Indians)
• Presbyterian, nine in the Southwest (38,069)• Episcopalians, eight in the Dakotas (26,929)• Catholics, seven (17,856)• Hicksite Friends, six in Nebraska (6,598)• Orthodox Friends, ten in Kansas & Indian Territory (17,724)• Baptists, five in Utah, Idaho and the Indian Territory
(40,800)• Reformed Dutch, five (8,118)• Congregationalists, three (14,476)• Christians, two (8,287)• Unitarians, two (3,800)• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions• in Indian Territories of Oklahoma (1,496)• Lutherans, one (273)
Church-Managed Indian Agencies, 1872
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Indian Agencies under Quaker Management U.S. Grant Administration, 1869-1877
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Orthodox Quaker Indian Agents, 1872. Sitting: Hiram Jones, John Miles, Brinton Darlington, Mahlon Stubbs, Joel Morris. Standing: Isaac Gibson, Reuban Roberts, Enoch Hoag, Jonathan Richards,
John Hadley, Lawrie Tatum
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Quaker Shawnee Mission School, built 1845Johnson County, Kansas
Courtesy Kansas State Historical Society
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Kickapoo children at Friends Kickapoo MissionIndian Territory
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Zitkala-Sa, Lakota author, attendedWhite’s Institute and Earlham College
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Joseph Ambler and Lizzie Cleaver, Iowa Boarding SchoolGreat Nemaha Reservation, Nebraska
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Quaker teachers Lina Lunt (left) and Elizabeth Test, Kickapoo Mission and School
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Buffalo Skulls
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Superintendent Asa C. Tuttle with teachers and students at Ottawa Modoc School, 1877
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Teacher Elizabeth Test (in doorway) and Kickapoo students, Kickapoo Mission and School, Indian Territory
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III. After the Ulysses S. Grant Administration
(1878-2006)
New York: Seneca (Tunesassa Boarding School)
Indiana: White’s Manual Labor Institute
Iowa: White’s Iowa Manual Labor Institute
Oklahoma: Kickapoo, Cherokee (Hillside School), Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa-Comanche-Apache (Fort Sill School), Iowa, Modoc, Miami, Peoria
North Carolina: Eastern Cherokee
Alaska: Douglas Island, Kake, Kotzebue
Arizona: Rough Rock Friends Church and school, Chinle
Alabama: MOWA Choctaw
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Council House Quaker Mission, OklahomaSeneca and Cayuga
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The Oklahoma Land Rush begins at noon, April 22, 188950,000 “Boomers” claimed land in Indian Territory
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White’s Institute, Lee County, Iowa
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Native students and parents at White’s InstituteWabash County, Indiana
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Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle PA1879 - 1918
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Zitkala-Sa, Lakota author, attendedWhite’s Institute and Earlham College
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“Steamboat” Frank Modoc1877
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Lina B. Lunt, Myra E. Frye, Elizabeth Test, 1926
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Letter from Mary Dorian, age 14, to former teacher Mary B. Lightfoot, Nov. 23, 1876
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Students in the Iowa Boarding School where Mary Dorian attended (names not recorded)
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Quaker teacher Addison Stubbs and Quyulange (Eagle Plume), 1877
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Queries
• What does this history mean for us as Quakers today?
• How can we respond to this history with Integrity?
• In addressing injustices today, how can we avoid making the mistakes our Quaker fore-fathers and fore–mothers made?
• Native people say the first step on the path toward healing is : Acknowledge the harm that has been done. How can Friends take this first step?
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