[Michlib-l] UP Notable Book Club - Sharon M. Brunner's Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out

Sun Apr 13 13:24:49 EDT 2025

This is a very special Q&A of the book club, we encourage you to share
this invitation with your patrons statewide.  The diaspora of Native
Americans is covers our state from one end to the other.  As always,
there is no fee to participate nor any type of residency requirement.

      UP Notable Book Club presents a Q&A session about Sharon M.
      Brunner's /Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out/

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UP Notable Book Club:* The Crystal Falls Community District Library in
partnership with the U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has
scheduled author events with winners of the /UP Notable Book List/. The
46th event is with *Sharon Marie Brunner*. She has published five books
associated with the history of Native Americans. Brunner is an enrolled
member of the Sault Ste. Marie [Michigan] Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The
impact of Indian boarding schools has been devastating for generations
of Native Americans, and the aftershocks continue to affect their
descendants today. Michigan was home to three: in Baraga, Harbor Springs
and Mt. Pleasant. The last to close was Holy Childhood School of Jesus,
in Harbor Springs. The aim of /Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors
Speak Out/
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to both study and preserve the memories of survivors before, during, and
after their school experience.

/*When: */Thursday, May 8th, 2025 at 7 pm Eastern / 6 pm Central
/*Where: */on the Zoom platform -- please contact Evelyn Gathu in
advance at egathu at crystalfallslibrary.org
<mailto:egathu at crystalfallslibrary.org?subject=UPNotableBooks&body=Please-send-me-the-zoom-link>,
or by phone at (906) 875-3344. We recommend you borrow a copy of these
books from your local library or purchase from your local bookseller in
advance to get the most out of these events.

*Sharon Marie Brunner is shownSHARON M. BRUNNER *has worked with the
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians as an Education/Disabilities
Coordinator for the tribal Head Start Program and as an Education
Coordinator for the Johnson O’Malley Program. Sharon served as a private
consultant for the Department of Health and Human Services as a federal
reviewer of tribal Head Start Programs in the U.S. and was a professor
for the Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college.  As a member of
the aforementioned tribe, she served on the Child Welfare Committee for
many years. Sharon has spent a good portion of my life either providing
service or writing about Native Americans.  On May 17th, 2025 she will
be presenting a workshop on “Addressing the Needs of Native Americans in
Literature.” at the 27th annual Spring Conference of the Upper Peninsula
Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) at the Peter White Public
Library in Marquette, Michigan.

Cover of the book - Michigan Indian Board School Survivors Speak
Outhttps://www.amazon.com/Michigan-Indian-Boarding-School-Survivors/dp/1615998020
<https://www.amazon.com/Michigan-Indian-Boarding-School-Survivors/dp/1615998020>

"Sharon Marie Brunner combines her family and tribal experiences with
historical research to provide a unique and strong foundation for this
narrative history. Originally a dissertation, which she wrote to
complete the requirements for her Masters Degree in Social Work, Brunner
soon realized that her study deserved a wider audience. I'm grateful
that her publisher, Modern History Press, agreed. Now in book form, this
landmark study is available to the general public as well as to
scholars, historians, tribal members, and anyone interested in Native
American history. Based on interviews with Northern Michigan Native
people who had lived in an Indian Boarding School or whose parent(s) had
lived in a Boarding School,/Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors
Speak Out/ includes the interviews Brunner conducted as well as her
meticulous analysis of the resulting data, which enabled her to
delineate the social, personal, and spiritual effects of this government
enforced separation of children from their families, and of the lasting
negative impact that resulted from the denigration of the children's
Native heritage and cultural mores. I highly recommend this book."
-- *Sue Harrison*, international bestselling author of /The Storyteller
Trilogy/.

More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, /U.P. Book Review,
/and UPPAA can be found on www.UPNotable.com
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About the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)*
Established in 1998 to support authors and publishers who live in or
write about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, UPPAA is a Michigan nonprofit
association with over 180 members, many of whose books are featured on
the organization’s website at www.uppaa.org
<https://UPPAA.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b1016c5c910959a236f2ff48f&id=d1555faab6&e=fd2c186103>.
UPPAA welcomes membership and participation from anyone with a UP
connection who is interested in writing.

--
Regards,

Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
www.LHPress.com
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