Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians humor and asks whether and how

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Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians humor and asks whether and howIn 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,