The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to create a database of information on Quaker-run Indian boarding schools.
Originally published in the March 1999 Friends Journal, this article is also included in the web edition of the February 2014 issue to coincide with two new features on the artist James Turrell and his latest Skyspace.
Quakers can advocate for alternatives to the dominant U.S. education paradigm that is based on industrial and military ideals of efficiency and control.