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Book Nook"Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools" by Mary Annette PemberThis Book Nook features Ohioan Mary Annette Pember discussing "Medicine River," her memoir about the Indian boarding schools that tried to erase their cultural heritages.2025-06-2351 min

American History HitThe Truth About Native American Boarding SchoolsThe Federal Government. Tens of thousands of Native American children. Around 50 boarding schools across the United States. This is the story of one of the darkest practices in American History.Our expert guest for this episode is Mary Annette Pember, author of 'Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools'. Together, Mary and Don explore why Native American boarding schools were set up, who ran them, and what life was like for the children who went there.Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.2025-06-1240 min

Viewpoints RadioErased: The Untold Story Of Native Children In U.S. Boarding SchoolsFor several decades, Native families passed down quiet, painful stories about children taken, languages lost and lives upended. Journalist and citizen of the Red Cliff Ojibwe Tribe Mary Annette Pember heard them too, but it wasn’t until she went digging through church archives that these and countless other stories were brought to the surface. This week, we trace the dark hidden history of Native American boarding schools in a post-Civil War America. Learn More: https://viewpointsradio.org/erased-the-untold-story-of-native-children-in-u-s-boarding-schools Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2025-06-0808 min

KPFA - Letters and PoliticsA History of Indian Boarding Schools in AmericaGuest: Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is currently national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. She is the recipient of several awards for her journalism and is the author of Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools. The post A History of Indian Boarding Schools in America appeared first on KPFA. 2025-06-0340 min

That Said With Michael ZeldinMary Annette Pember | Medicine River, A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding SchoolsJoin Michael in his conversation with Mary Annette Pember about her new book Medicine River, A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools which is a deeply personal account of Native American boarding schools in the United States, and the legacy of abuse wrought by them on her own family and Native culture and life.Mary is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of the Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is national correspondent for ICT News and has worked as an independent journalist focusing on Native American issues since 2000. She is the recipient of numerous...2025-05-271h 05

KPL PodcastKPL Podcast May 2025 Week 3 with Special Guest Annie MareWelcome back to the KPL Podcast. This week we spoke with Annie Mare about her latest novel Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon. Two women meet when one accidentally texts the wrong number. They begin to chat back and forth and try to meet up in person but learn they are separated by five months. One of them is in May and other in October for the same year. Listen to learn more.Author readsA Summer to Die by Lois LowryA/S/L by Jeanne ThortonWar is a Lov...2025-05-1647 min

Native America CallingFriday, May 9, 2025 — Native Bookshelf: Medicine River by Mary Annette PemberOjibwe (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. We’ll hear from Pember and also get an update from the National Nat...2025-05-0955 min

Skipped HistoryIn Search of Accountability for Native Boarding SchoolsToday, my guest offers an account of Native boarding schools and justice long overdue.In Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, Mary Annette Pember shares her mother’s experience at a Catholic boarding school in northern Wisconsin. The story offers a glimpse into what those schools were like and how their legacy continues to shape Native life today. As Mary told me, both the government and the Church “need to be called out” as the U.S. finally begins to reckon with this chapter of its history.Mary is a c...2025-05-0244 min $KERA\'s Think$ KERA's ThinkThe painful history of Indian boarding schoolsBy the 1920s, 76% of the Native American population was forced to attend boarding schools. Mary Annette Pember is national correspondent for ICT News, and she joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the legacy these schools left behind, from generational trauma to tribes working even today to reclaim their languages and ceremonies, and why the U.S. took this route to assimilate Native populations in the first place. Her book is “Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices 2025-04-3046 min

Native Roots Radio NetworkNative Roots Radio Presents: I’m Awake – April 23, 2025Host Robert Pilot and producer Haley Cherry welcome back Arvina Martin! Then, hear an interview with Mary Annette Pember (Red Cliff Ojibwe), Author of Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools. 2025-04-241h 31

The Book ReviewSpring Preview: A Few Books We're Excited ForEvery season brings its share of books to look forward to, and this spring is no different. Host Gilbert Cruz is joined by Book Review editor Joumana Khatib to talk about a dozen or so titles that sound interesting in the months ahead.Books discussed on this episode:"Dream Count," by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"Sunrise on the Reaping," by Suzanne Collins"The Buffalo Hunter Hunter," by Stephen Graham Jones"Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools," by Mary Annette Pember"Great...2025-03-0731 min

RevealBuried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2Chief Red Cloud was a Lakota leader in the late 1800s, when the conflict between the US government and Native Americans was intense, and he was the tribal chief when the Catholic church built a boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Generations of children were traumatized by their experience at the school, whose mission was to strip them of their language and culture.Red Cloud’s descendant Dusty Lee Nelson and other members of the community are seeking reparations from the church. “In my heart, in my soul, I feel like...2024-11-3050 min

RevealBuried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 1In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, a Catholic school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. One day, he says he stumbled upon small graves in the school’s basement. For nearly 30 years, Pourier would be haunted by what he saw and told no one except his wife. “Those are Native children down there…hopefully their spirit was able to travel on to whatever is beyond this world,” Pourier says. In 2022, he urged school officials to search the basement for the graves.The hunt for unmarked...2024-11-2350 min

RevealBuried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2In the second half of our two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), members of the Pine Ridge community put pressure on the Catholic Church to share information about the boarding school it ran on the reservation. Listen to part 1 here. ICT reporter Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, visits Red Cloud Indian School, which has launched a truth and healing initiative for former students and their descendants. A youth-led activist group called the International Indigenous Youth Council has created a list of demands that includes financial reparations and the r...2023-03-2550 min

RevealBuried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 1In a two-part collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), we expose the painful legacy of boarding schools for Native children. These schools were part of a federal program designed to destroy Native culture and spirituality, with the stated goal to “kill the Indian and save the man.” ICT reporter Mary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe, explores the role the Catholic Church played in creating U.S. policy toward Native people and takes us to the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Under pressure from the...2023-03-1850 min

First Voices Radio10/17/21 - Max Wilbert, Dr. Louellyn WhiteTiokasin Ghosthorse's guest in the first segment is Max Wilbert. In January of 2021, Max Wilbert and Will Falk launched an occupation of a proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass in northern Nevada. Max appears regularly on First Voices Radio to give updates on what is happening at Thacker Pass and what we can do to support the peoples' efforts. Max is a writer, organizer and wilderness guide, and has been part of grassroots political work for nearly 20 years. He is an author and his essays have been published many places, including CounterPunch and Dissident Voice. His latest...2021-10-1900 min

The Red Nation PodcastBoarding school stories w/ Mary Annette PemberOjibwe journalist Mary Annette Pember (@mapember) talks about deep family histories of Native boarding schools. Resources on boarding school trauma and healing: https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.187/ee8.a33.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Trauma-Resources-Doc_2021.pdf Support https://www.patreon.com/redmediapr 2021-08-021h 10

The Marc Steiner ShowUnearthing the horror of Native American boarding schoolsBack in May, the remains of 215 children were discovered on the grounds of a former residential (boarding) school in Canada that was used to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children. Soon after, over 750 unmarked graves were discovered at another residential school. Given the historical brutality of such schools in their treatment of Indigenous children, it is widely suspected that similar gravesites exist at residential schools across the US and Canada. Investigating these atrocities will require a significant commitment from the US and Canadian governments, and atoning for the (continued) evils wrought upon Indigenous people will take an even more significant commitment from...2021-07-1346 min

Not by the Playbook“It’s much more than being a race car driver” – Nascar racer Bubba Wallace on finding his voiceBubba Wallace joins us to reflect on a turbulent 2020 and to look ahead to racing for his new Michael Jordan owned team in 2021. Wallace led the successful calls for his sport to ban the confederate flag before a subsequent incident in Alabama prompted an FBI investigation. A member of his team found what looked like a noose hanging in his racing stall, with the authorities finding that no hate crime had been committed. As the only black driver at the top level of Nascar, Wallace tells us why it was important to speak out this year and how he...2020-12-1920 min

What The Phalange?! | A Queer Feminist Friends (TV Show) Podcast01.09 The One Where We Don't Want To Be Implicit in White SupremacyOuff, this episode takes us for a spin. It's thanksgiving and joeys not allowed home to celebrate. Monica is left cocking & trying to please all the potato needs of this little chosen family - except for Chandler, who is boycotting the holiday (though not for reasons one would hope for).While searching for words to explain what Joey's modelling experience really insinuates, and being faced with trying to unpack a holiday that has such a horrible history, Quinn and Emilie open up about why they started this podcast and how they're grappling with unpacking white supremacy when black...2020-08-161h 02

The Way with Anoa#Clemency4Cyntoia Granted and Rewire.News Writers Talk Sterilized Without ConsentThis episode deals with women who have experienced injustice at the hands of the state. In the first segment, organizers Marteze Gaines and Clarissa Brooks chat about Cyntoia Brown being granted clemency. Marteze, an organizer with BLM Nashville, was a part of the group who challenged Governor Haslam at a public event last month. Marteze and Clarissa stress the work of so many on the ground prior to the recent groundswell of support recognizing that importance of long term organizing.Rewire.News writers Mary Annette Pember and Anna Kusmer join the second segment to discuss forced sterilization...2019-01-081h 03

Native Opinion an American Indian PerspectiveEpisode 76 "We Must Save Ourselves"“EPISODE 76 WE MUST SAVE OURSELVES.” How to Reach our show: hosts@nativeopinion.com Twitter: @nativeopinion Facebook: facebook.com/nativeopinionpodcast/ Webpage: nativeopinion.com Youtube: https://www.Youtube.com/c/NativeOpinion Leave us a voicemail: Call us! (860) 381-0207 Next Guest April 28th: Jan Michael Lookingwolf Website: http://www.lookingwolf.com TITLE: The Realities of Lateral Violence Within Indian Country AUTHOR: Sarah Sunshine Manning DATE: March 30, 2017 SOURCE: https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/opinions/realities-lateral-violence-within-indian-country/ TITLE: Fort William First Nation accepts non-Indigenous man as full member AUTHOR: GLORIA GALLOWAY in OTTAWA for The Globe and Mail DATE: Published Sunday, Apr. 02, 2017 7:56PM EDT SOURCE: http://www.theglobeandm...2017-04-181h 45