Dark La Crosse Stories Epsidode 63: St. Mary's Boarding School
Published on Sep 17, 2024, 10:33:22 AM
Total time: 00:30:00
Published on Sep 17, 2024, 10:33:22 AM
Total time: 00:30:00
In 1883, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in La Crosse opened the St. Mary's Indian School, a boarding school that was on the reservation of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians with the mission to convert Ojibwe children to Catholicism, a history the FSPA now must reconcile with the survivors and descendants of St. Mary's.
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