And the So, Don't go out on me.

Don't count on me.

Don't count on me. I'm joined today by somebody who I've followed extensively after I read this book

called Stringing Rosaries the The History, The Unforgivable, and the Healing

of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors by Dr. Denise Lajimedimedir, and she is not only a scholar and an educator, but she's also an artist.

So welcome to the podcast, Dr. Lajimedimedir, I'm going to call you Denise if that's okay.

Dr. D, D. D. D. There you go.

So I would just want to start by maybe introducing yourself and how you came to the subject of boarding schools.

Yes, so

I do not know what I was going to be in a

what was going to be in a cause she's actually a little d'n't quite So I'm a quadig of the Jainakaz. She's

nahadou d'Anakwa june and dungibah.

So my tribal name, several of them at Morningstar and White Thunder Cloud Women.

My clan is Crane, and I am from the Turtle Mountains

in North Dakota.

So how I, what did you ask now?

You asked how I came to doing 40 school research.

Yeah.

Yes, I'd interviewed my parents, my father most extensively

because my mom died when I was fairly young but I still have a couple of her stories.

And I also interviewed my grandfathers and then when I became a professor, my dissertation, one of the themes that came from my

dissertation, I interviewed women, native women, and their path to leadership and one of

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