Book Club: Medicine River: A Story of Survival and Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools by Mary Annette Pember
Mon, Oct 19
|Generations Senior Community Center
Led by Chris Ebert A sweeping and deeply personal account 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. Marilyn Miller, AAUW-NW member, is referenced in the book.
Time & Location
Oct 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Generations Senior Community Center, 103 Elm Street, Woodruff, WI 54568, USA
About the Event
Arrive by 12:00pm, bring a lunch or snack you enjoy as it will not be provided.
Book Club discussions start at 1:00pm in the lower level conference room and generally end by 2:30pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award • A Best Book of the Year: NPR, TIME, Smithsonian, The History Channel
A sweeping and deeply personal account 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.
Our newest AAUW-NW member, Marilyn Miller, the Tribal business Management and Indigenous Studies chair at Nicolet College, is referenced in this book. 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 schools—sponsored by the U.S.…