{"id":24939,"date":"2025-01-19T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=24939"},"modified":"2025-01-19T23:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T23:19:35","slug":"reparations-delivered-by-bym-to-the-pawnee-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/2025\/01\/19\/reparations-delivered-by-bym-to-the-pawnee-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"BYM Reparations Delivered to the Pawnee Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three Friends travelled to the Pawnee nation in Oklahoma to deliver a $10,000 check from Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The check was the first of two offered in reparation for a school run for several years in the late 1800s by BYM Quakers that was disrespectful and disruptive of native culture. Check the upcoming winte<em>r Interchange<\/em>&nbsp;for an article on our visit. A more complete report will be placed on our committee\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of this writing, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act (H.R. 7227, S.1723), which passed the U.S. Senate on December 20,&nbsp; is awaiting a vote in the crowded agenda of the U.S. House of Representatives. Thanks to all who have worked for this bill and made calls on its behalf. Stay tuned to news from the Friends Committee on Legislation\u2019s coordinator for Native American legislative issues, Rachel Overstreet, a member of the Choctaw Nation.&nbsp; You can sign up to receive FCNL\u2019s&nbsp; Native American legislative update at this address:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gmail.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=794b0fc784634ec20885831b4&amp;id=6e42e3db7c&amp;e=9da4562276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.fcnl.org\/issues\/native-americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Friends travelled to the Pawnee nation in Oklahoma to deliver a $10,000 check from Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The check was the first of two offered in reparation for a school run for several years in the late 1800s by BYM Quakers that was disrespectful and disruptive of native culture. Check the upcoming winter Interchange&nbsp;for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,537],"tags":[501,355,536,498,538],"class_list":["post-24939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bym","category-indigenous-affairs","tag-current","tag-quaker-history","tag-indigenous-affairs","tag-peace-and-social-concerns","tag-reparations"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 20:12:36","action":"category-remove","newStatus":"draft","terms":[346],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richmondfriendsmeeting.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}