In the 19th and 20th centuries, thousands of Native American children were sent to schools run by the federal government and churches. Many suffered abuse at the schools, where the goal was to erase Indigenous cultures starting with the communities’ children.   

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we have the story of a Wisconsin survivor of one of these schools. His name is Dewey Schanandore (shan-an-door). When he was a child on the Menominee reservation, he went to a Catholic school called St. Anthony’s. Dewey shares his story and what it took to heal with WUWM reporter Jimmy Gutierrez and Eric Von Fellow, Maria Peralta-Arellano.