Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians Dene raises a grandson

raises a grandson

a tall and fierce-looking woman who say they want to look after her

Anishinaabe author Lois Beardslee shares how a life is lived within two cultures

at once elegant and easy

His spirit wheeled above the great meadow and the mountains

Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians Dene raises a grandsonIn 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,