Mammoth Publishes Ojibwa Author Denise Lajimodiere’s Boarding School Book
BITTER TEARS, 36 pp., staplebound, $12.00 ISBN 978-1-939301-72-7 Available May 1, 2016, $12.00
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Denise Lajimodiere spent years interviewing boarding school survivors for this project of moving narrative and lyrical verse, Bitter Tears.
The poems describe the experiences of children who experienced the wrenching trauma of assimilationist boarding schools. Denise Lajimodiere, an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is past President of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (N-NABS-HC) and present board member. Denise works as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Her current research agenda includes the history of American Indian boarding schools and also Native female leadership and Horizontal Violence. Her first book of poems is Dragonfly Dance (Michigan State University Press).
Denise is also a Birch Bark Biting artist and traditional Jingle Dress dancer.
Full-color cover, After Boarding School: Mourning, is copyrighted by Klamath-Modoc artist Kaila Farrell-Smith, used with permission. It is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum, purchased with funds from the Native American Art Council.
