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Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No ...
ISBN
0553387316
EAN
9780553387315
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Type
Hardback
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Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian B...
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Pember, Mary Annette
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0553387316
ISBN-13
9780553387315
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13070476766

Product Key Features

Book Title
Medicine River : a Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Native Americans, United States / General, Native American
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Mary Annette Pember
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

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Trade
LCCN
2024-031654
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20240802
Reviews
"A dauntless and visceral excavation of one family's residential boarding school legacy. In Medicine River , we can see pain ripple through generations, eclipsed only by Mary Annette Pember's courage and her conviction that, in the search for answers, we can heal." --Anton Treuer, author of Where Wolves Don't Die, "Mary Annette Pember has left it all on the line. Through her, her Ojibwe ancestors speak boldly about how the US government has treated them and every Indigenous nation in these so-called-United States. I have never read a book that has changed me so profoundly. Pember not only points to what has been done, but also offers a way forward. Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read this book." --Javier Zamora, author of Solito "So much writing about historical trauma casts a vague, impenetrable cloud over its subjects' lives. But with electric precision and rigorous care, Mary Annette Pember pierces through, illuminating the real mechanisms by which pain has accumulated and reverberated through generations of boarding school survivors and their descendants, as well all the beauty, love, and humor these same lives contain. In showing us how trauma is made, Pember helps us see that it can be unmade. 'History flows through us,' she writes, and nowhere has this idea been so well rendered as here, in this stunning, essential book." --Sierra Crane Murdoch, author of Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country "I have a shelf full of books on the Indian boarding schools, but nothing quite like this one. Anyone who questions why the U.S. government has finally apologized for these schools and for its brutal assaults on Native children and their families should read Medicine River ." --Colin G. Calloway, Professor of History and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College "Mary Annette Pember reveals that the trauma and rage of surviving the St. Mary's Catholic Indian Boarding School permeates through the generations. Pember has chronicled a deeply personal and first-person account of the dark legacy of incarceration at a 'civilized' boarding school and how the trauma of those youngsters impact their living descendants. Pember tells us that resistance and accountability is attainable, and I believe her. This is an essential read." --Devon Mihesuah, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, author of The Bone Picker "A dauntless and visceral excavation of one family's residential boarding school legacy. In Medicine River , we can see pain ripple through generations, eclipsed only by Mary Annette Pember's courage and her conviction that, in the search for answers, we can heal." --Anton Treuer, author of Where Wolves Don't Die
Dewey Decimal
977.004/97333092 B
Synopsis
A sweeping and deeply personal account of Native American boarding schools in the United States, and the legacy of abuse wrought by them in an attempt to destroy Native culture and life From the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1930s, tens of thousands of Native children were pulled from their tribal communities to attend boarding schools whose stated aim was to "save the Indian" by way of assimilation. In reality, these boarding schools--sponsored by the U.S. government, but often run by various religious orders with little to no regulation--were a calculated attempt to dismantle tribes by pulling apart Native families. Children were beaten for speaking their Native languages; denied food, clothing, and comfort; and forced to work menial jobs in terrible conditions, all while utterly deprived of love and affection. Amongst those thousands of children was Ojibwe journalist Mary Pember's mother, who was was sent to a boarding school in northern Wisconsin at age five. The trauma of her experience cast a pall over Pember'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 but hopeful portrait of communities still reckoning with the trauma of acculturation, religion, and abuse caused by the state. Through searing interviews and careful reporting, Pember traces the evolution and continued rebirth of Native cultures and nations in relation to the country that has been intent on eradicating them.
LC Classification Number
E99.C6P463 2025

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