The impact of Indian Boarding schools has been devastating for generations of Native Americans, and the aftershocks continue to affect their descendants today.
The author focuses on the accounts of nine former Boarding School residents and the effects their experiences. -Sharon Kennedy, EUP News Sharon Brunner\'s Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out is meticulously researched and a recommended read for the serious student of Native American history.
Brunner\'s true stories are written with a passion that flows from deep within her.
Children were taken from their families, their culture and their roots.
Stott, author, Native Americans in Children\'s LiteratureSharon Brunner is a prolific writer who uses her Native American roots to craft stories that Speak of the trauma Indigenous people experienced as a result of being forced to live in Christian Boarding schools. -Jon C.
The interviews with nine Northern Michigan residents, recounting their times in these schools and how the rest of their lives were affected, are deeply moving.
Sharon Brunner provides a thoroughly researched, thoughtfully presented discussion of one of the dark sins of America: Indian Boarding Schools.
Social workers, educators and those in human services must read this book to develop policies that address the unique challenges and strengths of Native American people.
Whether or not you have any Native American heritage, this book is crucial to under-standing the lived experience of our fellow human beings and how we can do better.
Abuses are documented in the hope that we can prevent such a calamity from ever happening again.
Surprising similarities and differences are explored in this highly researched social work treatise.
Brunner deftly teases out the themes from in-person interviews transcribed in 2001.
A woman whose mother attended one of these institutions, and a member of the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Brunner is uniquely positioned to understand the cultural background.
Each faced problems linked to the scars of this experience, although their recollections included positive and negative reports.
Pleasant or Harbor Springs institutions.
Sharon Marie Brunner set out to intensively study the family History and Boarding School experience of nine Native American Survivors who attended either the Mt.
The last to close was Holy Childhood School of Jesus, in Harbor Springs, in 1983.
Pleasant.
Michigan was home to three: in Baraga, Harbor Springs and Mt.
The impact of Indian Boarding schools has been devastating for generations of Native Americans, and the aftershocks continue to affect their descendants today
