Quakers & Forced Assimilation of Native Americans
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Quakers were heavily involved in the forced-assimilation of Native Americans.
Today, through the Friends Committee on National Legislation (the Quaker lobbyist), we advocate for Native rights and Native sovereignty. FCNL employs Portia Kay^nthos Skenandore-Wheelock, a member of the Oneida Nation to run its Native American Congressional Advocacy Program. It was previously run by Kerri Colfer of the Tlingit Nation, and before that Lacina Tangnaqudo Onco of the Shinnecock & Kiowa Nations.
Other Relevant links
- Decolonizing Quakers, a Quaker project to decolonize ourselves
- FCNL’s Native American homepage
- FCNL’s history of Native advocacy
- Quakers at Standing Rock, personal accounts of those who participated in the stand-off at Standing Rock