David Napier, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:04:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg David Napier, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Sins of the fathers https://anglicanjournal.com/sins-of-the-fathers/ https://anglicanjournal.com/sins-of-the-fathers/#respond Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:03:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/sins-of-the-fathers/ Ben Pratt is squeezing a dirty old baseball cap between his beefy fingers. We are seated in a small room in the sparkling new administrative building on the Gordon Indian Reserve in Punnichy, Sask., about 150 kilometres north of Regina. Our interview has been intense, but so far without incident. Then I asked the 44-year-old Native Canadian about his time in prison (an incarceration in the early 1970s for a crime he claims he did not commit) and the sexual abuse he suffered at the Gordon's Indian Residential School in the 1960s.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/sins-of-the-fathers/feed/ 0 91618 Sins of the Father – Residential Schools special report https://anglicanjournal.com/sins-of-the-father-residential-schools-special-report-6852/ https://anglicanjournal.com/sins-of-the-father-residential-schools-special-report-6852/#respond Tue, 02 May 2000 04:00:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/sins-of-the-father-residential-schools-special-report-6852/ (This story was first published in the May 2000 issue of the Anglican Journal.) Ben Pratt is squeezing a dirty old baseball cap between his beefy fingers. We are seated in a small room in the sparkling new administrative building on the Gordon Indian Reserve in Punnichy, Sask., about 150 kilometres north of Regina. Our […]

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