Name: Journalist and Historian Mary Annette Pember, author of “Medicine River"
Start: 2025-05-08T19:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Louis County Library

$Journalist and Historian Mary Annette Pember, author of \u201cMedicine River"$

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 them “assimilate” into American life. In reality, these government sponsored schools were an insidious attempt to destroy tribes and stamp out the traditions of generations of Native people. Ojibwe journalist Mary Pember’s mother was forced to attend one of these institutions. Highlighting both her mother’s experience and the experiences of countless other students at such schools, “Medicine River” paints a stark portrait of communities still reckoning with the legacy of acculturation.
Mary Pember will be in conversation with Brady Wolf, Curator of Indigenous Collections - Missouri Historical Society.
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