“Just like us, you’re a rez dog, too,” her grandmother tells her. While she’s sad to say goodbye to Malsum, she knows she’ll be back.
By the time summer comes and Malian can return to Boston, she has learned how much her Wabanaki heritage is a part of her. In between school, gardening, cooking, and Star Trek episodes, Malian and her grandparents share stories: folklore, and tales of her grandfather’s time at an Indian boarding school, and how her mother was taken away from her parents and put into foster care as a child. Malsum never comes into the house, but his presence brings joy to Malian and her grandparents as they go about their daily lives.
When a rez dog appears one morning, Malian names him Malsum (meaning wolf), and welcomes his company. She loves her grandparents and the reservation, but sometimes gets bored, lonely, and frustrated by the spotty Wi-Fi.
The atrocities that she endured during her 10 days on Blackwell Island have made it possible for me have safely spent the last 273 days working in a Psychiatric Center or as it was known in 1887, a "Madhouse".Summary: Malian has been visiting her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation when Covid hits, and she can’t go back home to Boston. Although our experiences are more than 136 years apart, her work touches every aspect of the humane treatment and care that I witness and provide to the patients I work with every day. This book is an exquisite piece of investigative journalism! I am very thankful to the work that Nellie Bly conducted to expose the inhumane treatment that was occurring to individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses at Blackwell Islands Asylum for t This book is an exquisite piece of investigative journalism! I am very thankful to the work that Nellie Bly conducted to expose the inhumane treatment that was occurring to individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses at Blackwell Islands Asylum for the Insane and according to her book, many individuals who did not suffer from any mental health disorder at all. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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