Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her ...

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...

The Bad River Tribe has taken on a billion-dollar Canadian oil pipeline company to defend manoomin and the fresh waters that sustain it—and us all.

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember recounts what happened to her mother, and many like her, who were abused in Indian ...

Superior history teachers Chris Clairmont and Vicky Nytes attended the Montana History Conference last September, where they ...

Medicine River. According to Mary Annette Pember in her powerful new book of that name, the Ojibwe (sometimes Anglicized as Chippewa) believed that everything needed for a good life could be found ...