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Circ StatusDue on 7/3/2025
LibraryBeaver
TitleMedicine River : a story of survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools / Mary Annette Pember.
AuthorPember, Mary Annette, author.
Call No977.004 Pember
CollectionNon-Fiction
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780553387322
International Standard Book Number 9780553387315
International Standard Book Number 9780593470466
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 977.004/973330092 B
Personal Name Pember, Mary Annette, author.
Title Statement Medicine River : a story of survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools / Mary Annette Pember.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, 2025.
Physical Description pages cm
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary, Etc. "A sweeping and trenchant exploration of the history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S., and the legacy of abuse wrought by systemic attempts to use education as a tool through which to destroy Native culture. From the mid-19th century to the late 1930s, tens of thousands of Native children were pulled from their families to attend boarding schools that claimed to help create opportunity for these children to pursue professions outside their communities and otherwise "assimilate" into American life. In reality, these boarding schools-sponsored by the US Government but often run by various religious orders with little to no regulation-were an insidious attempt to destroy tribes, break up families, and stamp out the traditions of generations of Native people. Children were beaten for speaking their native languages, forced to complete menial tasks in terrible conditions, and utterly deprived of love and affection. Ojibwe journalist Mary Pember's mother was forced to attend one of these institutions-a seminary in Wisconsin, and the impacts of her experience have cast a pall over Mary's own childhood, and her relationship with her mother. Highlighting both her mother's experience and the experiences of countless other students at such schools, their families, and their children, Medicine River paints a stark portrait of communities still reckoning with the legacy of acculturation that has affected generations of Native communities. Through searing interviews and assiduous historical reporting, Pember traces the evolution and continued rebirth of a culture whose country has been seemingly intent upon destroying it"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Pember, Bernice Rabideaux, 1925-2011.
Subject-Personal Name Pember, Mary Annette
Subject-Personal Name Robidou family.
Subject St. Mary's Indian Boarding School (Odanah, Wis.) Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Ojibwa women Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Off-reservation boarding schools Social aspects United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Indian children Abuse of United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Ojibwa Indians Social conditions 20th century.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Bad River Reservation (Wis.) Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Odonah (Wis.) Biography.