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Native Yupik Plaintiffs in Alaska announce $50 million settlement with Jesuits

Attorneys for more than a hundred people who say they were victims of abuse involving Jesuits in Alaska announced Sunday they have reached a $50 million settlement with the regional Jesuit province.

The 110 people, all Alaska Natives, said they were abused by 15 Jesuit priests, brothers or those supervised by Jesuits from about 1961 to 1987, said Ken Roosa, their Anchorage-based attorney.

Roosa said his clients ranged in age from about 5 to 16 when they were abused, and the abuse occurred in remote villages along the coast of Western Alaska and along the Yukon River.

"In some villages, it i...