Medicine River: a story of survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools

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"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. ... Ojibwe journalist Mary Pember's mother was forced to attend one of these institutions, ... 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, [this book] paints a stark portrait of communities still reckoning with the legacy of acculturation that has affected generations of Native communities"--
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Bad River Reservation (Wis.) -- Biography
Indian children -- Abuse of -- United States
Odonah (Wis.) -- Biography
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Social aspects -- United States
Ojibwa Indians -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Ojibwa women -- Biography
Pember, Bernice Rabideaux, -- 1925-2011
Pember, Mary Annette -- Family
Robidou family
St. Mary's Indian Boarding School (Odanah, Wis.) -- Biography
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Medicine River : a story of survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools
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Medicine River
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a story of survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools
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Ojibwa Indians
Ojibwa women
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Robidou family
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