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If you weren't paying attention as people outside Native American communities mostly were not in the 19th century,

it might have sounded like a benevolent idea. Build federally funded boarding schools to educate indigenous children living in poverty in remote areas,

never mind that their financial challenges and the location of their communities were the product of federal policy in the

first place. In any case, by the 1920s, about 76% of American Indian children were forced to

attend these schools starting as early as the age of four. And their experience was a lot more

brutality than benevolent. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd. Because so many

tribal communities were compelled to send their children away to these schools, today there are

very few Native Americans whose families have not been affected by those traumatic decades.

My guest grew up hearing her mother's stories about the harsh and

disorienting institutions that stole her childhood and set out to investigate them in part to

understand her mother and her mother's demons. Marianette Pember is national correspondent for

ICT News, formerly Indian country today, and she is author of the book Medicine River,

a story of survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools.

Mary, welcome to think.

Oh, thanks for having me, Chris.

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