{"id":26077,"date":"2016-10-25T01:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/church-apologizes-for-native-boarding-schools\/"},"modified":"2016-10-25T01:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T08:39:44","slug":"church-apologizes-for-native-boarding-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/church-apologizes-for-native-boarding-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Church apologizes for Native boarding schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 The Presbyterian Church of America has apologized for the experiences of Native Americans at boarding schools that had ties to the church.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported a group of people who attend a Presbyterian church in the state gave the official apology at the end of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Convention co-chairman Jerry Isaac thanked the church and said he hoped other governments and groups take similar action.<\/p>\n<p>The apology calls the boarding schools an ill-conceived system of assimilation and cites the physical, sexual and emotional abuse that took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 The Presbyterian Church of America has apologized for the experiences of Native Americans at boarding schools that had ties to the church. The Fairbanks Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>-Miner reported a group of people who attend a Presbyterian church in the state gave the official apology at the end of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26077"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}