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HAB911

(8,811 posts)
Tue May 9, 2017, 02:59 PM May 2017

Jesuits to return 525 acres of South Dakota land to Rosebud Sioux

ST. FRANCIS, S.D. (CNS) — The Jesuits are returning more than 500 acres in South Dakota to the Rosebud Sioux. The formal return of the property is expected to be complete sometime in May.

The property had been given by the U.S. government to the Jesuits in the 1880s for use for churches and cemeteries, according to remarks in a YouTube video by Jesuit Father John Hatcher, president of St. Francis Mission.

“At the beginning of the mission, we had 23 mission stations,” Father Hatcher said. “But over the years as the people moved off the prairie and into cluster housing, those churches were closed because they were considered unnecessary.” Other properties never had churches built.

“It’s now time to give back to the tribe all of those pieces of land that were given to the church for church purposes,” Father Hatcher added. “We will never again put churches on those little parcels of land. But it’s an opportunity to return land that rightly belongs to the Lakota people,” of which the Rosebud Sioux are a part.

http://catholicphilly.com/2017/05/news/national-news/jesuits-to-return-525-acres-of-south-dakota-land-to-rosebud-sioux/

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Jesuits to return 525 acres of South Dakota land to Rosebud Sioux (Original Post) HAB911 May 2017 OP
I suppose it was the least they could do. trotsky May 2017 #1
The very very very least HAB911 May 2017 #2
Well you know, we're not supposed to talk about the systematic rapes & coverups in the RCC. trotsky May 2017 #3
What does the article you posted have to do with the return of Native American land? rug May 2017 #4
Well, as long as they aren't using it I guess. AtheistCrusader May 2017 #5
But they get great PR. trotsky May 2017 #6

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
1. I suppose it was the least they could do.
Tue May 9, 2017, 03:29 PM
May 2017

After both figuratively and literally raping them.

South Dakota Sex Abuse Scandal: A Peek Inside the Church's Drawers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-woodard/south-dakota-catholic-sex-abuse_b_850102.html

The letters are casual, even chatty, from officials of St. Francis Mission, on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota, to Catholic Church superiors. The mission ran one of many boarding schools to which Native American parents were required to send their children from the late 1800s until the 1970s, when most of the institutions were closed down or transferred to tribal control.

...

What ex-students describe as rampant sexual abuse in South Dakota's half-dozen boarding schools occurred against a backdrop of extreme violence. "I'll never forget my sister's screams as the nuns beat her with a shovel after a pair of scissors went missing," said Mary Jane Wanna Drum, 64, who attended a Catholic institution in Sisseton, South Dakota, for the children of her tribe, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

Izzy Zephier, 62, a Yankton Sioux tribal member, recalled a Sunday-evening ritual at St. Paul's Indian Mission. "Those who'd tried to run away were stripped, lined up, and given 40 lashes each with a thick rubber strap," he said.

...

Native parents faced severe penalties, including jail time, if they did not send their children to the boarding schools. However, Zephier said, as a young teen he came upon an unexpected escape route: "School had just let out for the day, and I realized I'd forgotten a couple of books. I ran back into the building, where I found that a priest had a girl on the floor. She was fighting and screaming, 'let me go.' When the priest saw me, he got up and backhanded me hard. I hit him back and yelled to the girl, 'run, get out of here!' I hit the priest five times and knocked him down. The girl took off. The next day, I was expelled."

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
3. Well you know, we're not supposed to talk about the systematic rapes & coverups in the RCC.
Wed May 10, 2017, 08:49 AM
May 2017

At the risk of being labeled an anti-Catholic bigot.

ONLY GOOD NEWS ALLOWED!

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
4. What does the article you posted have to do with the return of Native American land?
Wed May 10, 2017, 09:21 AM
May 2017

Other than to deflect back to your usual anti-Catholic agenda.

If you don't like anti-Catholic bigot as a term, how do you feel about the term anti-Catholic propagandist? If you're not a propagandist, surely you can post a followup to the six-year old article you did post so readers can determine its accuracy.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
5. Well, as long as they aren't using it I guess.
Wed May 10, 2017, 10:01 AM
May 2017

"We will never again put churches on those little parcels of land."
"those churches were closed because they were considered unnecessary.”

So, once it has no value to the church and is deemed small and worthless, give it back?

Hooray I guess.

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