Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians humor American Indian tribalism

American Indian tribalism

showing how the past contributes to the present

2021—is special: Auntie Autumn gathers all the children around their television to witness Secretary Deb Haaland in her ribbon skirt at the White House as she becomes the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary

"' The result is a rousing testament to the power of storytelling

But then came Grandma Josephine and her great-niece

Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians humor American Indian tribalismIn Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at the Carlisle Indian School, Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Ford Motor Company Factory,