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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2021

    One thing I'm hazy on is how residential schools for Native kids operated in the USA. I know they had them & my sense is that like Canada they were church/state fusions. But puzzled how that was permitted under USA constitutional system.

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      2. Shane P. O'Halloran  🧦‏ @ShaneOSD1 5 Jun 2021
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      3. Shane P. O'Halloran  🧦‏ @ShaneOSD1 5 Jun 2021
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        This is basically the answer.

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      1. Matunos  💉 💉 💉‏ @matunos 5 Jun 2021
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        Jeet, you sweet summer child

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      1. The Universal Nephew‏ @YoungerPope 5 Jun 2021
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        The constitution is more like guidelines when it comes to how nonwhite people are treated

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      1. Your Friendly Neighborhood Owl‏ @yfnowl 5 Jun 2021
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        Wait until you learn how much money Catholic schools still get from the US government...

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      2. Dr. Kat PhD. ... not your kiddo, buddy 🇺🇦 🌻‏ @Dakinikat 5 Jun 2021
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        Read about the Mission System in early California. It's horrifying. Most of this was set up in places that were territories and not states. I seem to recall from my Nebraska history classes as a kid that this had something to do with it but I'm an economist, not a lawyer so ...

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      3. David Benfell, Ph.D.‏ @n4rky 5 Jun 2021
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        The mission system was set up by the Spanish. I don't know how horrifying you've read, but Spanish soldiers would go to native villages and rape the women to stigmatize them and thus introduce hierarchy, which the mission priests would then exploit to enslave the natives.

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      1. All Watched Over By Machines of Laura Jane Grace‏ @popeguilty 5 Jun 2021
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      2. I'm Chris ابو شربل‏ @crawlings13 5 Jun 2021
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        The Church ostensibly did the work the US government was unwilling, unable, or otherwise disinclined to do. By and large this was a profound and important role the Church filled and should not be somehow cast under suspicion based on the horror uncovered in Canada.

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      3. Anton Delvig‏ @AntonDelvig 5 Jun 2021
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        Shouldn’t it though? There are still people in Canada who defend the system here in pretty much those words. Why would the same churches in the US do better there?

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