Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember (Hardcover)

Nonfiction - History - Indigenous - Biography & Autobiography - Memoirs  RELEASE DATE: 4/22/2025 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) 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