Please join the Indian Affairs Committee for this presentation by Paula Palmer. The program will begin at 7 pm. Paula is the founder of Toward Right Relationship with America's Native Peoples (Project of Boulder, CO, Friends Meeting, Indigenous People's Concerns Committee). Native American organizations are asking churches to join in a Truth and Reconciliation process to bring about healing for Native families that continue to suffer the consequences of the Indian boarding schools. With fellowships from Pendle Hill and Friends Historical Library, Paula Palmer researched the role that Friends played in implementing the federal government’s policy of forced assimilation of Native children. She will give an overview of the Quaker Indian boarding schools in New York, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Indian Territory (Oklahoma), and pose the query: Knowing what we know now about the impacts of forced assimilation, what does this history mean for Friends today?