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The Catholic Church Siphoned Away $30 Million Paid to Native People for Stolen Land
Early Trumpists at their hateful work.
This is heartbreaking to read.In 1910, BCIM records show Native American parents signed over $128,308 to the mission schools — more than $3.5 million today. In 1935, the schools received $234,675 from Native trust and treaty funds — about $4.3 million today. In total, over the nine years records were available (1910, 1933, 1935, 1939 – 1943, 1954), Native parents gave the schools some $30.4 million, adjusted for inflation.
This number does not include federal student rations diverted to schools, other federal funding, the value of the extensive Native lands given to the schools by the government, nor the other 53 years between 1908 and 1970 for which records were unavailable.
According to a report from the Raynor Memorial Libraries at Marquette University, a Catholic Jesuit university that maintains a special collection of BCIM archives, the practice stopped in the 1970s — because the Native trusts had been siphoned to depletion.
Early Trumpists at their hateful work.