1018 KB0 KB201320262026Kolar, Bogdanštevilka:1letnik:81str. 1-31DOI:10.34291/Edinost/81/01/KolarISSN:2335-4127COBISSID_HOST:285536003URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-XLIGLZGSslZaložba Univerze v LjubljaniEdinost in dialogČerne, SerafinaFlajšman, FrančiškaIndians NivacléIndijanci rudo NivaclémisijonimissionsMozetič, TadejaParaguayParagvajSlovenian School Sistersslovenske šolske sestreSestra Serafina Černe in druge šolske sestre misijonarke med Indijanci v Južni Ameriki| Sister Serafina Černe and other School sisters as missionaries among Indians in South America|In addition to working among their compatriots, Slovenian school sisters in South America developed a wide range of educational and health care activities among the Toba and Chulupi Indian tribes in Argentina and Paraguay. The first sisters encountered mission-ary conditions in Laishi, near the Paraguayan border. In 1936, the first four sisters opened the Mision San José Esteros mission station in that country. They later established a second station, Mision San Leonardo, in the Paraguayan province of Chaco Paraguayo in the marshy Pilcomayo River basin. For three decades (1936–1966), the central figure of the mission and superior of the sisterhood was Sister Serafina Černe, who, in addition to her other activities at the mission station, devoted herself to studying the native language of the inhabitants and preparing the first textbook in their language. This later became the basis for the preparation of other school books. Since the school sisters had accepted girls from the local population among their members from the very beginning, these gradually took over the care of the mission stations and the original work among the indigenous population. The last Slovenian to work in this mission was Sister Tadeja Mozetič (who died in 2019). The paper presents the work done by the Slovenian school sisters to preserve the original Native American cultureSlovenske šolske sestre so v Južni Ameriki poleg dela med rojaki razvile razgibano vzgojno-izobraževalno in zdravstveno delo med indijanskima plemenoma Toba in Čulupi v Argentini in Paragvaju. Prve sestre so se z misijonskimi pogoji dela srečale v kraju Laishi blizu paragvajske meje. Leta 1936 so prve štiri sestre odprle misijonsko postojanko Mision San José Esteros v tej državi. V nadaljevanju so začele še drugo postojanko Mision San Leonardo v paragvajski pokrajini Chaco Paraguayo v zamočvirjenem porečju reke Pilcomayo. Tri desetletja (1936–1966) je bila osrednja osebnost misijona in predstojnica sestrske skupnosti s. Serafina Černe, ki se je, poleg drugih dejavnosti na misijonski postaji, posvetila preučevanju izvirnega jezika prebivalcev in pripravi prvega učbenika v njihovem jeziku. Ta je kasneje postal osnova za pripravo drugih šolskih knjig. Ker so šolske sestre že vse od začetka med svoje članice sprejemale tudi dekleta izmed domačega prebivalstva, so ta postopoma prevzela oskrbovanje misijonskih postaj in izvirnega dela med prvotnim prebivalstvom. Zadnja Slovenka, ki je delovala v tem misijonu, je bila s. Tadeja Mozetič (umrla je leta 2019). Razprava predstavlja delo, ki so ga za ohranjanje izvirne indijanske kulture opravile slovenske šolske sestreTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta