the Pick-Sloan dams

Narratives unfold into earlier narratives

Clyde Bellecourt remembers

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is an enchanting meditation on modern life

Frances Van Zile

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools Squamish the Pick-Sloan damsA 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