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Mary Pember
journalist
Independent Ojibwe journalist focusing on native issues.
Articles
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Rose Domnick, a Yup'ik woman in Bethel, Alaska, was incapacitated by fear until she confronted her traumatic past and found healing by exploring her spirituality.
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The play "The Great Hurt" was written by retired artist and St. Scholastica College faculty member Carl Gawboy of the Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa. It contains eyewitness accounts, both historic and contemporary, of the Indian boarding school experience.
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At the Sister School on the Bad River reservation in Wisconsin, life was harsh and often brutal. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know about the trauma my relatives endured there; although they aren’t my direct experiences, their stories have always been with me.
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It was Felix the cat who set it off, a great black outline of the cartoon character with his name emblazoned across his chest in a bygone typography. He spoke of an L.A. from the big, big 1950’s, a mythical all the way to the top time. But for me, standing on Figueroa Blvd. in 2014 Felix set off...
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American Indians represent the “gold standard” for bad health in this country. We top the lists for mental health related illnesses like addiction and suicide. American Indian women also suffer the highest rates of sexual assault of any U. S. ethnicity.
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<p>The National Library of Medicine plans an exhibit of Native American healing practices this fall. In preparation, its physician-director met and questioned nine renowned Indian medicine men in Bismark, ND, a rare encounter.</p>