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

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding SchoolsA sweeping and trenchant exploration of the history 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

Land Too Good for Indians reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history

Raised among the Lemhi Shoshone

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torn between his duty as a tribal officer and his fascination with Louise

When a little girl dreams about a bear

and Nanapush had outlived his six wives"—with unexpected humor that turns suddenly bittersweet at the story's close

She explores supporting evidence from genetics and linguistic anthropology regarding First Peoples and time frames of early migrations

a young girl who learns the profound significance of her Ojibwe heritage through the tradition of wild rice harvesting

These stories describe how humans earned the right to use the bodies of animals for their needs

the Sinykins

one that begins with President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Bechdel's brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends--academics