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4 days ago

Museums at Indian Boarding Schools Are Shining Light on Their Survivors

"My grandma was four when she was brought [to Stewart], and she was raised in violence by the matrons. She never had an opportunity to learn parenting skills from her parents. That experience, in my family at least, was the start of violence, alcoholism, and generational trauma. I have relatives who still will not step foot out here because our grandma was abused on a regular basis."
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: no way people can apologize it away'

Mary Annette Pember's first book, Medicine River, addresses the legacy of Indian boarding schools and her mother's experiences.
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