Mary Annette Pember

Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Ojibwe tribe and a national correspondent for Indian Country Today.

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  1. A History Not Yet Laid to Rest

    Indigenous people in Canada and the U.S. have been reckoning with the legacy of assimilationist boarding schools for years. Now non-Native people must too.

    About a dozen Indigenous boys stand in front of a priest, all facing the camera.
    Courtesy of the Bad River Tribal Historic Preservation Office
  2. Death by Civilization

    Thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools created to strip them of their culture. My mother was one of them.

    Layered photographs of a woman, a church, and two nuns posing with women in hats
    Images courtesy of Bad River Historic Preservation Office and Mary Annette Pember