Newly published list shows Catholic sisters ran 74 US Native American boarding schools
The Catholic Truth & Healing website lists 87 Catholic-run Native boarding schools before 1978 across 22 states. Seventy-three of those schools were run or staffed by Catholic women religious.
My 95 year old mother-in-law still has a protestant bible her neighbor gave to her 70 years ago. The woman was a German immigrant brought to the US by a catholic charity. She said if the church caught her with the bible, her husband would be excommunicated.