Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

By Pember, Mary Annette

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9780553387315
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Pantheon


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Reviewed on May 30, 2025  |  Social Sciences

In her first book, Pember, a journalist and member of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, has crafted a passionate memoir of intergenerational trauma that lays bare the catastrophic impact of Indian boarding schools on Indigenous communities and families. Pember's mother Bernice spent eight years in a Catholic-run school for Indigenous children in Odanah, WI, enduring physical and emotional abuse that resulted in an abidin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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