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[Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 10/26/2007, you wrote:
> I have been 'in transition' since last June, and will
> finally be settled at - the end of November - in
> Newberry Springs, California (mid-Mojave).

I know where that is along the old Route 66.  I lived in the towns of 
Mojave and Lancaster, well west of you, for many years.

> Among the things I've been unpacking, shuffling and
> re-shuffling, etc. in my perhaps-efforts-in-vain to get
> organized, is a bunch of correspondence from-to Daniel
> Peaches (Navajo) - then Representative, AZ. He and I
> were having an ongoing discussion regarding the merits
> of removing Navajo children from the reservation and
> placing them in Mormon-run off-reservation boarding
> schools.

What the Mormons attempted to do was almost as bad as the Catholics but 
they did it in more modern times with the full assistance of the BIA.  The 
intent was to brainwash native children both into the Mormon mythology and 
western thought.  More cultural destruction by another religion.  I agree 
with Richard Dawkins that teaching children religion should be considered 
child abuse.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com