Authored by education professor and former NABS board member, Dr. Denise K. Lajimodiere, this book explores the enduring impacts of the boarding school era in the Dakota’s and Minnesota and its relationship to historical and intergenerational trauma. Dr. Lajimodiere’s research is an extension of her interest in the stories of her father and other family members who were subjected to and survived the federal governments’ assimilation policy that compelled the proliferation of the boarding school model. The insights gained through her research invited Dr. Lajimodiere to more profoundly understand the way in which she and her siblings were raised, as well as other family members of whom were so closely impacted by the boarding school era. The book features sixteen interviews with boarding school survivors and is culminated by the author’s own healing process with her father.

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Source: Lajimodiere, Denise K.. “Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, the Healing of Northern Plains Boarding School Survivors”. ND: North Dakota State University Press, 2019