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Native America Calling: Bookshelf with ‘Medicine River’ by Mary Annette Pember
Friday, May 9, 2025
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Bookshelf: Medicine River by Mary Annette Pember
Ojibwe (Red Cliff) journalist Mary Annette Pember puts her own family’s boarding school experiences on display in her new book, “Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools.”

Pember builds from her relationship with her mother, a boarding school survivor, to offer personal insights into the origins and effects of generational trauma. She also documents her path to journalism and how one non-Native editor’s refusal to cover Native issues drove her to become one of country’s most trusted Native storytellers.

Tune in to hear from Pember and also get an update from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition on what changes in federal government mean for the future of addressing past boarding school abuses.

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 by Mary Annette Pember (Pantheon Books, 2025)

Guests on Native America Calling
Mary Annette Pember (Red Cliff Ojibwe), national correspondent for ICT News and author of “Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools”

Fallon Carey (Cherokee Nation), digital archives manager for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

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