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

Mary Annette Pember, Erin Tripp

eAudio - 2025

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • 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 “With a government that is rewriting history in real time, Medicine River stands as a testament to the truth.”—The New York Times “Powerful. . . . An important work.”—Los Angeles Times “Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read this book."—Javier Zamora, author of SolitoFrom 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... more