Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
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From the mid-nineteenth century into the 1930s, tens of thousands of Native children were forced into boarding schools meant to erase tribal life through assimilation, beatings for speaking Native languages, forced labor, and deprivation. Ojibwe journalist Mary Pember's mother was sent to one in northern Wisconsin at age five; that trauma shaped Pember's own childhood. Medicine River braids her mother's story with reporting on other survivors and families still reckoning with the legacy of state-backed schools and the survival of Native cultures.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780553387315
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