Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians

Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American IndiansIn Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at the Carlisle Indian School, Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Ford Motor Company Factory,

Members and descendants of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate

this book is a fitting tribute to an important and ongoing tradition among indigenous cultures

much different from Amik's school

It contains stories written by the grandfather she never knew

Especially valuable is the reappraisal

Nora Murphy is a fifth-generation Irish Minnesotan

will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants

eclectic reflection from an Indigenous author on his life

Since the romanticized story of the encounter and relationship between Pocahontas and Captain John Smith was first published

who lived a year of flight and adventure

the story of Crazy Horse

and their heritage