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Author:

Lajimodiere, Denise K., author.

Title:

Stringing rosaries : the history, the unforgivable, and the healing of Northern Plains American Indian boarding school survivors / Denise K. Lajimodiere.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

North Dakota State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiii, 277 pages : illustrations, 1 folded map ; 24 cm + 1 folded map in back pocket.

Subject:

Lajimodiere, Denise K.--Family.
Off-reservation boarding schools--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Indian children--History--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Indian children--History--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Indians, Treatment of--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Boarding school students--Great Plains--Interviews.
Off-reservation boarding schools--Students--Biography.
Ojibwa Indians--Biography.
Hidatsa Indians--Biography.
Dakota Indians--Biography.
Interviews.
Personal Narratives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The history -- The priest -- Postum coffee -- White Beaver -- Stringing rosaries -- Nervous breakdown -- Room Nineteen -- Student of the year -- Hidden sheets -- Number 76 -- The big green bus -- The attic -- S'ter -- Run away -- Sold -- Rattlesnakes! -- Wakan Tanka -- The healing. -- American Indian boarding schools by state (folded map).

Summary:

Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never shared before. She came to an understanding of new terms: historical and intergenerational trauma, soul wound. Her research helped her to gain insight, a deeper understanding of her parents, and how and why she and her siblings were parented in the way they were. Stringing Rosaries presents a brief history of the boarding school programs for Indigenous Americans, followed by sixteen interviews with boarding school survivors, and ending with the author's own healing journey with her father.

Series:

Contemporary voices of indigenous peoples series ; volume 2

ISBN:

1946163104
9781946163103

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1103565542

LCCN:

2018967346

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)