The Great Plains Conference's Committee on Native American Ministries (CONAM) hosted its second-annual ceremony to remember children who endured atrocities at U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, which was a component of the U.S. government's assimilation efforts. In reality, the schools aimed to strip young Native people of their culture and heritage by forbidding the use of their languages, forbidding them to wear their native clothing and forcing them to cut their hair.

The event, hosted at Saint Paul United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, was attended by a little more than 100 people and featured the church's choir, the inter-tribal Standing Bear Drum Circle, remarks by Bishop David Wilson, and a poem by Nebraska youth poet laureate Aliyah American Horse. Dr. Gabriel Bruguier, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln served as the keynote speaker.

Read about the event here.