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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 Schools

EBook 2025

"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 outsi...