http://www.metafilter.com/tags/placement Posts tagged with 'placement' at MetaFilter. Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:25:05 -0800 Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:25:05 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/38045/Saints%2Dand%2DIndians <i>" Fifty years ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or Mormon Church, began a foster care program for American Indian children. Between twenty and fifty thousand children, mostly Navajo, participated in what was called the Indian Student Placement Program....Through Placement, children had the opportunity to grow up in families – white Mormon families – while attending day schools in Utah and across the West. Placement also had a theological motivation. Championed in the ‘50s by an LDS Church leader named Spencer W. Kimball, Placement grew from a sense of commitment to the Indians – then regarded as descendants of the original people of the Book of Mormon.</i> Listen to the amazing story, full of first hand accounts from both sides <a href="http://www.knau.org/Pages/saints-indians.html ">here</a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.38045 Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:25:05 -0800 brokenlink children lds mormons nativeamerican placement BrodieShadeTree